Author's note: This is version 3. I edited it once for inconsistencies, continuity errors and really embarrassing editing mistakes, but I've since finished working out the world and its rules and its point, so now I've gone back to retcon things, basically. Or, to prevent myself having to retcon later. Or something. Original note: It's amusing when you no...
Synopsis: College life in the era of interplanetary colonization is kind of similar but different - you still have to study and take finals and such, but the classes cover topics like Orbital Mechanics and Xeno-Biology. And depending on which planet you're on, Xeno-Bio can get particularly engrossing. [Author's note: There's all sorts of familiar themes and...
Melissa glanced to her side as she pulled onto her street. Jessica was completely silent and still, like a statue as she stared out of the window with her head resting on her palm. What am I doing? Melissa's grip on the steering wheel relaxed slightly as she felt a weight settle itself upon her chest. She was second only to Kyodai-Hime at school with a circ...
Melissa looked at the calendar and groaned. She had always been as regular as clockwork and the calendar showed that her time of the month was almost upon her. She should have known; her aching breasts had been feeling fuller but she'd put off acknowledging it as she was having a rare weekend off whilst her ex had the baby. "Oh crap, tell me I'm not due. No...
I'm always a little insecure sitting in the Uber. Mostly, it's because I'm wearing a black kilt, which is not typical going-out clothes here, but also because even the most cursory look is going to find the handle of our ever present crop. I endure and we remain fairly quiet on the way up. We can hardly chat about the entertainment to come in front of our f...
Hindsight is 20-20 yet even now I could not explain how I knew. The memory still as fresh as the scent that lingered on my lips and in my mind. Besides me c sat quietly, unconsciously fingering her collar, smiling to herself, still amused no doubt by the security check... As the plane gathered speed I turned to c, smiled, winked, her eyes shining, she knew w...
Living in Korea for the past 4 years, Lily had grown to love the country. With a stable job and a promising career, she had no intention of leaving any time soon. She could live freely in Seoul, no worrying about what family and friends back home might think, something that enabled her to indulge in many liaisons with cute Korean men. At 27, she had gone th...
That evening I arrived home first and paced the floor. The adventures of the holiday were all well and good in the privacy of anonymity but this was here. This was neighbours and family and work colleagues. Fun is fun but this is serious; where was all this going to go? What if people we knew were witnesses to new adventures? What then? Both of us worked in...
The elves watched the human revelry with bemusement. They deigned to participate, content to sit by the fireside and observe the rowdy humans as they drank, joked and laughed. One particular elf, Leahran, who could by their standards be called a youth despite his already unnaturally long life, watched the humans with heightened interest. Having known nothing...
"I'm a Demon, taking out fiends is what I do," I said quietly as I sat across from the police detectives, in this cold 'interview' room, somewhere inside the Toronto Police Service headquarters. The two detectives, a burly, fifty-something white guy named Doyle Connors, and a slender, dark-haired Latina named Marissa Lopez, exchanged a smile and shook their...