Paragon Alliance Memorial Park, Crosswook, November 5th, 2033 6:30 PM EST She walked down the short ramp and turned towards the broadcast area. Whether it counted as irony or luck, maybe both, the abundant crowds swarmed the park during the warmth of the day, previous pattern analytics provided confident projections that the memorial had become just …
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Lost in Time, Part II — An Alliance Alternate World Story
Earth – Universe 999, December 1, 2157 The smells of the canteen wiped away her train of thought, and she forgot all the questions for a moment, and her stomach growled again. The colonel smiled, and led her to a table with an odd collection of chairs, mismatched, but all comfortable, surrounding a small table. …
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A Dreamer’s Instinct, Part II
She leaned back into him, standing comfortably with his arms wrapped around her, his head resting on her shoulder, the brunette hair still occasionally strange to him, but the scents wafting from her head and shoulders eased his troubled mind. He still could never find the words to describe scents the way his reptilian organs …
A Dreamer’s Pain, Part I
The rage burned through the reflection of the yellow eyes visible underneath the mask, the flickers of purple as the teleportation spell took hold, depositing them on the mark Spyder had painted on the floor so long ago. For just a moment, irony distracted him, the wave of purple magic jumbling with the purple tint …
Suppression
It had never before seemed strange to walk through the base in clothing that was soaked in something; whether that be sweat, blood, water, mechanical fluid, none of it mattered. After years of moving around, or at least not remembering where he'd been, Tempest Point had finally become.......home. Since he almost always healed any wounds …
Quiet Judgment
He let the water spray over him. A few months ago, Shawna would be in here and they would have figured out how to make this narrow shower their playground. Given that she'd changed her hair to the same sea blue as that first vacation to Cancun, and.....well, there had been a lot of firsts …
A Nightmarish Truth
The monstrous former grizzy bear roared as it spun, far quicker than something of that size and weight should be able to move, and as it did, the electro-metallic parts piercing its bloody chest swung into few, complementing the metallic gleam of its unnatural claws. Perfect, his landing had distracted it from the …
Rage: The Duality of Love & Hate
He regretted it as soon as it left his hand. Mad as a cut snake. How the fuck was he supposed to compete for romanticism against a story of a proposal in space, viewing the Earth and saying whatever she wanted because he was a fucking Foster? So afraid when she said that he screwed …
The Gleam in His Eye
July 2015 I’d noticed the other day that she kept hanging around, smoking cigarettes and occasionally taking one of my beers out of the cooler. She kept changing the music to some sort of music that I thought was punk, or at least related to punk. At first I thought she was watching Bryce, and …
A Lifting Fog – Missions of Discovery I
“Brett, War Room, now.” The quiet message came over the comm link embedded in his ear. He didn’t really understand all the technology Titan had created with Apex for communications, hell, especially for the armor. Privacy was an accepted illusion as a member of the Alliance, and that didn’t even count the magical artifact Brujeria …
The Danger of Dreams
“While no additional charges have been filed against UDP leadership or members beyond the alleged direct assassins in the three weeks since election day, the investigation into the attempt on Senator-elect Graham continues……” Outwardly, Brett didn’t sigh in frustration. He was attempting to enjoy the beautiful fall day in the park William had forced his …
Spiral of Regret
I’d left the conversation. I couldn’t leave the aircraft, but I'd left the conversation, turning my attention towards the take-off and initial flight maneuvering. The limited AI James, although I wasn’t entirely sure what Titan meant by that and why he was different than Apex, could have handled all of the flight controls, including the …
Revelations: Ruminations and Regrets
I stand in the courtyard, listening to Whitley in her La Amante persona…..make pronouncements She’d always been high strung, and this persona incorporated parts of her commanding presence as a doctor, but there was something different, something crueler maybe. I’d tried to talk to her earlier in the morning, to, well, if I am …
Revelations: Part I
The flames' height had dropped as they consumed the most flammable of materials in the estate house. If anything, though, the fire grew in heat intensity, especially around the stone stairs to the bolt hole or safe room. I hadn't been able to enter, and Brujeria had been to wounded and in too much pain …
Open Wounds
I sit at the back of the little plaza, watching the celebration unfold. They ignore us, for the most part, not overtly hostile, but not.....welcoming either. We are the family of their new high priestess to be, whatever they officially called the position, regardless of the magic, or maybe because of the magic, a tribe …
Last Dreams 