WHY WOULD ANYONE POSSIBLY SAY NOPain surged down Dan’s arm. The orc’s sword had sliced between his middle and ring finger all the way to the wrist. A second later, the orc’s head was sliced off and Dan...

I THOUGHT I'D LOST YOU, I THOUGHT I'D LOST MYSELF....Night.Rain.The low engine hum acted as the pedal point to the endless strikes of soles on pavement, the distant cry, all replaying in a percussive...

IT IS A MAGICAL YET JARRING SIGHTThis is a hard country. Lora ran her fingers over the first line of the tome. Invisible fumes burden the air, that make the body tired and the mind murky. The words were...

JUST ANOTHER STUBBORN COWARDIt was time to get food for the Silvers again, and as usual, the job landed on me. It was going to be a long, uneventful trip to the Diamond’s mansion with my little, worn...

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER OF TASK FORCE 7 REPORTING FOR DUTY Laser burns scarred the metal frames of half-melted, barely recognizable structures. The ground was torn apart from battle, and not a blade of fresh...

SPACE TRAVEL, NOW NOT JUST FOR THE LIVING....The Admiral walked along the line of five, followed by some youngster who had the honor of carrying the palette of medals. Max listened as the old man quietly...

PERSPECTIVE IS A FANCY WORD FOR BULLSHITIt's like entering a forced meditation room I thought the first time I stepped inside the recording studio. The air instantly grew thicker as soon as the door was...

AYE EVERYONE KNOWS DENTISTS BE EVILI could stay aboard this ship for the rest of my life. The salty air filled Spencer’s lungs and the wind bit his face. This was his first time on a ship. He thought...

AT DCI, WE BELIEVE IT IS 'GROWTH'Mumbai, 2061Josh found the bar he was looking for. The city of Mumbai was always crowded, with cars packed from sidewalk to sidewalk, marching through the street in tightly...

WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SEND USNews Flash: The first graduation ceremony at Earth’s new Space Academy was disrupted today when former cadet and accused thief, Hugh David, stole the very ship he was set...

WHEN WE BURNED THE EARTH!!Nikolai Tesser began his days as he always did, with a routine check of his data-miners. He was the proud owner of five machines, each processing at an Exabyte-per-second. Sure,...

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE WAS LIKE HELPING HIMSELF“Members of Alpha Rescue Recon, please proceed to Port B10 to board the U.N.D. Heisenberg. The vessel is departing in five minutes,” an automated female voice...