Editor's note: though not classified as Illustrated, this story contains images. Author's note -- Please read from chapter 1 to best comprehend all that's going on here. It's a complicated tale, and sexy-times happen as the story calls for them. Given everything else that's going on for Ray and company, they don't happen all that frequently. That may or may...
In my story, "Midsummer Fest, Ch.2" there are several references to a 'failed colony' on the planet Sylvan. It was called a debacle and almost killed Project Lifeboat, the interstellar colonization program. This was written to explain just what really happened out there. "The defendant will rise and face the bench!" Ariel stood, her eyes still red fro...
Turning around I saw Blackness approaching to land in the back of the village. Majestic ship was pretty in the green and blue landscape, the metal was strangely calming the way it bounced sunrays of its hull. Paul and Jerry left back to their posts I assigned them few minutes ago leaving me alone with Anna. The silence between us was calming me, I did not k...
[Several thousand years in the future] Humanity had spread to 100 solar systems. We had also discovered several anomalies in spacetime where it would seem your ship was randomly transported to another spot. As an escaping criminal, I was headed for one of those. (My crime? I had taken the local Governor of the system out of a business double. We made thre...
Note: ALF: Animal Liberation Front CCD: Colony Collapse Disorder DOA: Department of Agriculture Rosewood California, July 7, 2011, 2:00 A.M., the residence of Barry Sandford, CEO Mrs. Sandford's Honey (a division of Sandford Industries). Bzzz! "Grumble! Snort! Sandford here. Pierce?! Do you have any idea what time it is?!...What do you mean there's been...
Last fight for humanity. That's what it's come down to. There are six thousand human beings left in the cosmos. All of us are on this spaceship, the Maverick. We're quite a blend. African-Americans. Caucasians. Asians. Middle-Easterners. Latinos. Jews. Atheists. Agnostics. Gays. Lesbians. All of us huddled together on a city-sized spaceship constructed right...
It has finally arrived. An invasion of Earth has begun, and you are the catalyst of many. However, the aliens doing the invading are not doing it through destruction or death. No, their invasion is silent and even more deadly than anyone can imagine. The aliens invading Earth are going to use something all humans enjoy more than anything: Sex. How they do th...
Chapter 3 Tomb Raiders Even as I thought it, I realized that something didn't make sense. Hellfire already knew where the home planet of the crystals was. What did they need the map for? Even if there were other discoveries, useful discoveries to be found with the map, I couldn't see the group sponsoring an expedition that would pass so close to the source...
The call came. It wasn't unexpected, but it was worrying. "Paul, we need you back." "Of course, General." I had been humanity's best pilot in the Fourth Inhuman War, traveling though Quasi-space from system to system and leading my fleet to a series of victories. I had been feted and given all sorts of honors when I returned after five intense years of co...
My name is Kalbrid Aston of the Lasher Clan. Son of Kalbur Aston and Sira Lashme. By all appearances, I'm a six-foot-six, broad-shouldered and muscular, thirty-something man with dark brown skin, pale gray eyes and long black hair braided into neat dreadlocks. I am one of the Warrior Princes of the Brethren. I am currently on the ruins of the planet Earth, l...