Janette was trying to play Burdlit, he thought. But this was not a game that she could win, and by the end, Galaxy Bloc would lose. Dio Qze was not the first planet to have been terraformed with a Deew in place of its expected star-powered core. Far from it, so even if the botanist was [...]
Having no personal wings or means of biotechnologically-integrated jet propulsion, the Carriveaua were incapable of unaided flight. They seemed to fare a little bit better in water – but just barely. So for Burdlit, the lift and grasp that he was subjected to by one of the Deew’s branches which coiled around him seemed to [...]
Every once in a while something happens that raises your spirits. The Seventh Age is my second sci-fi novel for this year. I began thinking about how I get it noticed by an industry reviewer. Then I remembered a particular well known writer I am fortunate to have become acquainted with via a well known [...]
Being immune to feminine wiles did not necessarily mean that Boyd’s senses were deadened from being a career assassin but that he was just not interested in companionship at this time. No intended disrespect was meant when the Enforcer ignored the fragrance of Janette’s hair or the other relatively pleasant features which might have been [...]
“Hey Dave, my little toe is missing!” “What?” I asked absently. “I said my little toe is missing.” I glanced down to the bottom of the bed where her foot was sticking out from under the sheet and she was wiggling her toes. Sure enough, gone. “When did that happen?” “I don’t know. We were [...]
“There are four things that I don’t like to talk about in public,” Boyd explained as Janette’s halted procession allowed him to leisurely catch up to her: “Religion, sports, video games, and politics.” “Convenient,” Janette assailed with an accompanying head nod of spite as they continued down the corridor together. The urging was almost a [...]
I am trying a genre I have not tried for a while. My usual style is Fantasy horror. This is going to be a series called “The Word.” A Sci-Fi set based in a distant land and time, when the Word is all but banned and the Game Lords hunt Word seekers. This was going [...]
“Nothing about this – about what you’ve caused,” Janette chastised, “is in any way…funny.” The eight remaining Galaxy Bloc soldiers trained their laser rifles on the intruder. “Isn’t it though?” Boyd smirked before returning the deathly seriousness to his own face in countering, “Dio Qze has some sort of rabid, killer plant for a core…. [...]
Bearing down on the botanical skewer with a savage right elbow of foolhardy conviction, Boyd used brute force to power through the abnormal branch – dropping the soldier into the brace of his bent left arm as a result. He soon reverted back to the projectile finesse of his LUNC when aiming overhead and firing [...]
“We’re going to settle up later, Human,” Burdlit warned.“I envision you having a lovely funeral,” Boyd countered. They danced away from one another toward a neutral, less engaged position – side-by-side. To Burdlit who now stood on the right, this intruder seemed like a nonstop source of amusement. Only, Boyd was serious about wanting the [...]
