USS Surefoot-A, Deck 3 Fore, Alpha Squad Quarters, Stardate 49702.79: "The time is 0600 Hours. The time is 0600 Hours. The time is 0600 Hours-" "Acknowledged," surrendered Zir Dassene, though that was her only concession to the arrival of the morning. She continued to lie there in the dark with the others in the room, refusing to get up, at least, not ju...
Chapter 16 - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut Rose and Dave drove to Burlington and dropped off their luggage with the hotel concierge. They then prowled around Boston doing touristy things. The one advantage of having a motorcycle was that they were much easier to park than a car. Dave went into a garage near Quincy Market and parked in a series of...
Copyright PennameWombat June 2019 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual...
Chapter Nine A week and two days passed without much going on, and at the same time I was very busy with signing royalty contracts. Lia and Mia continued to work long hours, and I found myself hoping it would end soon. They were doing fifteen to twenty contracts a day, and we were up to over two hundred of them so far. Mia, as far as I knew, was also spen...
Chapter 16: The Galician King ***** "Why, Commodore, I do believe you're poking me from behind." Jack smiled as his eyes remained closed. It was still early enough that he didn't want to hazard a glance just yet, preferring to remain pressed into the sweet-smelling woman in front of him. However, it was only with a quick glance that he saw the dark hair,...
Thanks to those who have read the previous 3 LIAR stories. The first chapter of this fourth installment tries to bring readers up to date. While you can read this story separately, it is helpful for background to read the first three installments. Thanks to "Andrew Martin" for reading and offering some edits to bring this together. Hope you enjoy this inst...
Author's note: This story is a direct sequel to 'The Strangeness Within,' which I placed in Novels & Novellas, though it could also have been in this category. This tale won't make complete sense without reading the first book. The setting is (almost) our world, during the mid 1990s. The stories are probably best described as somewhere between fantasy and s...
At eighteen, Gary thought he knew it all but his education was mediocre, his childish looks were quickly fading, his goals in life were mere questions and his sex life crested half his life ago. Soon after his nineteenth birthday, Gary realized his state of being had been little more than a frustrating search for an illusion. During the final months of high...
CHAPTER 12: "All warfare is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu * * * It took most of Kendra's willpower not to tap her foot on the floor or get up and start pacing. She'd been waiting for two whole hours. Falkaan had drilled it into her head for years that you should never let personal ticks in speech or body language give away what you were thinking or feeli...
The Passenger Chapter 5 In space, especially in hyperspace, you are completely isolated. In realspace it's distance, gravity and delta-vee (the term pilots use for differences in velocity) that keeps you physically separated from anyone outside the ship. Yes, communication is still possible, but the high cost of planet-to-ship comms keeps that to a minimu...