Abstract: Flight Engineer Meghan Rafferty joins an off-world mining shaft crew working in the asteroid belt, but no one told her about her real job. * "Why the hell does my spacesuit have high heels?" asked rookie Flight Engineer Meghan Rafferty. The din of alarms prevented nearby Asteroid Miner Technician Lori Brower from understanding the question. Th...
Chapter Twenty One Intrepid - 3755 C.E. It had been a long time since Captain Kerensky last had to squeeze into a space suit. It wasn't really what a captain of a space ship, especially one as large as the Intrepid, was ever expected to do. Why would a captain ever need to go anywhere that wasn't climate-controlled? The last time Nadezhda had put on a spac...
A deep and heartfelt thank you to LB. For both your editing and your guidance. ***** Alina lay in the chaise lounge near her pool. Her station in life afforded her a beautiful home at the top of a hill abutting the rain forest some distance from the city. In fact, Alina had no one living close to her at all. Alina being the only child had inherited her p...
It was not as easy as she was hoping. They were just completing the first orbit and nearly ninety minutes after lift off, Merpati was feeling as if she were running a race for her life. Swallowing repeatedly, she willed herself to calm down. “Dionysus…MEDCOM,” Traynor’s voice continued in a trained near-monotone NASA was famous for. “Merpati, your pulse is...
This is an erotic love story and of course all characters are over 21. This is a submission for the Halloween Story Contest, so please vote ( fives are most welcome) It will definitely not start out as a love story, but it will get there. Please vote and of course please leave constructive comments. PS -- If you have fantasies, ideas, etc for new stories...
She had months ago learned why astronauts, dressed in their bulky white suits and helmets, waddled clumsily rather than walked like other people. The suit's plumbing made normal walking an impossible task. Astronaut Tori Nicole Anson half shuffled, half waddled from the suit room into the hallway. She smiled inside her closed visor at all the people assemb...
This is a sequel to Venus Ascending and continues the story. This story can stand alone, but it will make more sense if you read Venus Ascending. I appreciate any comments both on the previous story and its sequel. OuPa99 ***** John had never been more frightened in his entire life. Even the revolution, where the love of his life had been in mortal dange...
A dazzling blue-green ball, floating like a jewel in space, holding all of human history, everyone who's ever lived... Yeah, yeah. But home for me is dusty red, sandstorms scratching at the skin of the pressure dome like a million crazed ants. If I squint, I can just see the blackened silver shell of the ship that brought us here a decade ago, and every nin...
Note- The BBC Corporation own the rights to Doctor Who and TARDIS. This is only a fun spoof and not to be taken seriously. xxx "It's a distress call! From another TARDIS! There's another Time Lord out there! Hold on, I'm coming, I'm coming!" The current incarnation of the time traveller known only as the Doctor scrambled around the central six panelled co...
The ground rover grew smaller and smaller as it ran over the flat shimmering desert. That it didn't kick up a dust trail only added to the appearance of how fast it was disappearing. With a sigh, I sat down on a rock and looked up at the vast blackness of space and it's dusting of brilliant stars. Home was up there somewhere but I'd never see it again. I ch...