It was that time of year again. Every two to five years, actually. Once a year would have been preferable, but professional obligations kept Aestu tied down to her ship; thankfully unlike some species, her race had quite a bit more control over their mating cycle. In any event, she had now taken leave, donned her old mercenary's outfit - a simple deep teal...
The new specimen was waking up. Lord Xaurkoth unsealed the entrance to the specimen chamber and reared up to his full majesty, allowing only two of his tentacles to bear his weight. In this gravity, of course, even the weakest brood-swaddler could have maintained this stance, but the specimen didn't need to know that. It only needed to know that Lord Xaurkot...
Morning Sarah could feel the warmth of the sun through the window, she didn't know the time or cared. She felt energized by the orange ball, feeling her and her skin was absorbing it all. She wondered if last night had been a dream, it had felt too fantastic to be real but she found her head laying on Michael's large shoulder and his arm wrapped around her...
In the continent of Africa, there lived a tribe of people called the Ampakra. They were primitive hunters and gatherers who lived in the wilderness around 10 000 B.C. One day, one of the men of the tribe went hunting and did not return. His people thought he was dead. He was not. He had encountered a strange beast which had bitten him. The bite had changed...
a note from the author: One of the things I enjoy about Science Fiction is the chance to take ideas that wouldn't work in the real world and have a little fun with them. A theme I find curious is the idea that aliens are studying Earth culture via old TV and radio broadcasts they've picked up from deep space, then basing all their in-sights and observations...
Just Beneath the Surface World War T is a series of independent, vaguely interconnected stories about different tentacle monsters invading earth, very much an erotic homage to World War Z. These short stories do not need to be read sequentially, but if you are looking for it, this is the beginning... To Rachel, the inspiration for the series There w...
Starship Traveler: Chapter Two: First Contact XXXXXXXXXXXX Again her dreams were rich in detail and seemed to go on forever. People long dead drifted through her thoughts. Her mother looked at her and spoke, "Where are you going?" "I am sorry, Momma, I am going far away. I don't know if I will ever come back." Her first husband, a kind hearted man who c...
Disclaimer: Characters, settings, names from this story are creations of my own creative and inventive mind. ***** Prologue In a dystopian future on Earth. Humanity's numbers have dwindled down from ten billion to only one hundred million worldwide. War. Disease. Famine and the pollution and corruption of the land, sea and air were the main contributors t...
Tuesday, September 8th, 2015. It was our 8th wedding anniversary. Nancy and I were spending it the way we had every year since getting married, doing the 13 mile loop hike around Mt. Diablo in the morning, before our anniversary dinner in downtown Walnut Creek. This was the same hike where we had first met, as part of a larger group in college. It was likel...
Chapter2 Who They Are The man that claimed he was Jor El allowed Carmen to take the podium with an amused smile on his face. She gently swatted his butt before saying, "His real name is Jordan Ellis, he thinks of himself as Superman's father and thinks of you as supermen and superwomen. He also has an atrocious sense of humor. Call him Chief, or Dad if y...