People of the Sea
**Echos of Juena** _First Retreat_ **Foreword:** The Sun Sea; a pretty name for a vile place. The ocean sulfurous and bubbling with vents just below the surface. The islands, rocky and steaming with fresh a gout of lava every day or two. The...
Dragon's Sacrifice
**Ch. 1 - Capture** A cruise, a joyous excursion to relax and maybe even dive. That was what Anna and her husband had in mind when they purchased tickets to take them along the pacific rim. It was a three month voyage with stops at hundreds of ports...
Splice of Life
**Ch. 1 - Point of Sale** "It's either this or live out your last few days in pain. You don't have enough credit to even afford pain killers I'm afraid." Doctor Stephenson told her with a firm shake to his head, "It's only ten years out of what could...
...Dream...
**Dream** -1- Omo woke late that morning, it was well past dawn and nearly to high noon when she crawled from her hole. There was a strange sense of urgency at the back of her mind, like memory of something important that was just out of reach. Yet...
Mother, Father, Moth
**Mother, Father, Moth** **Ch. 1 - Moth Bride** John was the biggest, baddest boy in town; or so he told his friends when drunk. Once the toughest football player on the local highschool team, able to run faster, farther, and tackle harder than...
Chimera Born
**Echos of Juena** _The Beginning_ **Chimera born** That morning Juena woke like any other storm sodden morning. Water dripped on the bedpost above her head; the roof needed re-thatching. She could smell the sweet scent of baking, spice buns to...
Punishment By Fire
She had broken the law, this was certain. Whether the law was just and whether the punishment fit the crime; these had no place in society. She had broken the law and would now pay the price. Before her family, friends, neighbors and peers she was...
The Aether
**The Aether** The Entity consumes creative energy; to humans this is the soul. Each human is born with a quantity of creative energy, a pure untapped well of high density potential on a separate axis of existence from the physical world. As one...
Snow Angels
Ice, ice for as far as he could see. Drifts of snow, crags and glaciers. As he had first been born on this world, from that glacier on the southern continent; so too would he end up on this world, trapped in a prison of frost. Soon he wouldn't have...
Feral Instinct
Years ago he had lived as a man on the surface. He went to work, he wore a suit, he came home, he went to the bar, he even played sports. But that was a lifetime ago, a memory so distant it seemed like a dream. A string of crimes and the police...
A Timely Autotheist Mistake
Traditional time travel is impossible. Organics and delicate machinery decay in the time stream, even solid metal decays. The rate of decay is the issue. An orb of gold? A billion years will leave it a pitted porous foam. Tungsten, maybe five hundred...
A Dirty Job
A Dirty Job Application Work was scarce, especially when you lacked a college degree; really that's my only excuse. I'd pursued numerous avenues of employment, from agencies that eventually stopped returning my calls, to internet services that only...