Chapter Twenty OneIntrepid - 3754 C.E. There is almost no incident more serious than when the space ship of which you are captain has been attacked and boarded. And as captain of the Space Ship Intrepid, Nadezhda Kerensky knew that what was required was an emergency meeting for everyone aboard. It wouldn't be enough to simply broadcast a statement. There h...
It may have been a particularly long, boring and routine assignment as far as everyone else were concerned, but for Halley it was still only her third or fourth time going EVA. Just getting to be out there was exciting enough, and she couldn't yet see how it could ever be otherwise. This was exactly the kind of thing she had dreamed of herself doing, signing...
The desk clerk at the Inn directed me to the dock when I asked about Dora. The beach next to it was filled with tourists and there were even a few on boats tied up to the dock. Dora stood beside the bloody piling while an older man dressed in denim coveralls knelt to examine it. They had their backs to me so I took that as a sign from God to sneak up and li...
The Mission is not Going Well "Log entry, stardate 2/11/2521, Captain Richard 'Dick' Coxwell. Following my primary mission I've moved the ship into a new sector known to harbor biomes suitable for human life. Last contact with sentient life suggested that odds for achieving the prime objective would be higher in this sector of the galaxy. The weight of my m...
I stepped away from the elevator as the doors started to close. The computer components were heading up to the portal, and I was down here. In the guts of Virgil Station. It wasn't Engineering - Engineering was where people turned theory into practicality. This was the area that was labeled on the map as Cryonics. It was where I had started. It was back to t...
I was still quite innocent in the art of walking the Vegas strip after 2 a.m., which was littered with screaming fat chicks, homeless men, stumbling couples, and hookers. As I walked across a bridge beneath one of those blaring fifty-foot TVs, two black chicks approached me. "Hey sexy! Where do you think you're going?" I'd never been too much into black girl...
Back in the day I had this funky little car, day glow pink with cute yellow flowers on the hood and sexy low bucket seats. I used to make my hubby, who I nicknamed sad sack, drive so I could lie back, feet on the dash, sipping my wine. Pulling up at a gas farm was always fun. Predictable piggy men would stare at the car expecting this hot chick to be driving...
Chapter 35 On his walk back to the engineering section John tried to gauge the mood of the people we saw. Some of the guests seemed to be oblivious to what was going on while others just had a hint of nervousness. Some of the entertainment staff would recognize John, shake his hand and slapped him on the back with congratulations. While others, scowled at h...
Previous Choice: A thrilling adventure he had during his ten years out on the frontier. * Deckard pulled her close, enshrouding Corani in his duster coat. She seemed to enjoy the gesture, cuddling into his chest as she took deep, even breaths. An old story about his childhood would do no good here. He'd already told her most of the good ones, and the res...
In a two-person flight crew there were few secrets, which was why Arky Del preferred to fly with a female co-pilot on long trips. She turned up the music a bit more, trying to drown out the sound of her co-pilot masturbating noisily in the next cabin. Petal wasn't exactly oversexed, but like most of us she had an internal timer that told her when it was to...