Bringing the regiment into disrepute was a serious offence, punishable by sixty days of hard labour in the military jail. Captain Buller felt ready to impose the punishment as soon as he heard about the incident in the tavern but decided to give the offenders a chance to explain their actions. Sitting behind the big wooden desk in his austere office he gazed...
Rise-1:00 AM So, as I said it's been a year since The Change and I spent most of that time learning about the world and the rest of it I spent training myself to fight. I know my skills will never be as good as someone professionally trained but a year of almost nothing but training myself with whatever weapons I could find has made me, at least, capable of...
The Passenger Chapter 7 You'd expect landings and takeoffs to become routine over the years. And indeed to a certain extent they do, but not entirely. Every world is different, every system has its peculiarities, and while some worlds may become more familiar when you visit them often enough, the ones you've never been to always have something of the unex...
The Passenger Chapter 8 The cubicle that Por led us into was small, but the ubiquitous Gawrran wood paneling that covered the walls gave it a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere. From the markings on the wooden floor it was clear that other furniture or fixtures had been removed at some time in the past, and most of the floor space was now taken up by the...
"Damn, did you see that?" Marcus said to his homeys, James and Antoine, as he whipped his head around to follow a red blur on the dark Atlanta Street. Both James and Antoine missed seeing the car that sped by. Marcus tripped over the leg of a smelly homeless man lying on the sidewalk. James and Antoine started laughing at him for his clumsiness. Marcus did n...
Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex. ***** This is a prequel to my Repo'd series (which I promise that I will update soon). It gives backstory to Marti, a mailgirl in the Repo'd story whose character, although currently minor, will become more important in coming chapters. However, as this story is set in 2025, six...
Note to Readers: Thanks for being so patient, my apologies for such a long wait... life has just gotten too hectic for me, I'm hoping to finish this story as it is close to my heart. Comments are welcome... enjoy this third installment of fairytale. ***** Sunlight and birdsong awoke Belle the next morning. She looked around to find fire already lit and th...
Rich: Okay, I lost and I will take my punishment Sue: Oh you will... Your wife does not enjoy does she? Rich: No... And so it had begun, in fact it had begun weeks before, we had been goading each other with bizarre bets and dares, stupid things involving glue and mess. I had promised that some day I would carry this out, and so Sue had suggested a b...
The day passed as the rode along. They neither hurried, nor tarried, rather taking a leisurely pace. The device inside her played about, as if by whim, but the princess knew her master held the strings. She was amazed at the wizardry of his devices, and it pleasured her as they rode. The princess would have preferred an even slower pace, prolonging the ine...
"Have you got a location?" "Not yet, Captain. The signal is very faint, and drops out a lot, but it's modulated like it's got what must be the ship's entire reactor driving it." The comms officer has drafted the astrogator and his assistant, and the three of them are tapping feverishly at their consoles as they try to find the signal's source. "Can you giv...