Category Serial
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Twelve Toliver could hardly believe how much his life had changed in the last three plus weeks. He still lived in the same Domi® as before and left the hall every night after dinner. He still used these solitary nights to practice his carving. Now, he had good reason and a target for all […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Eleven Stavo had moved on from Asgard. The weather there was too cold, the ground too hard. He had moved, when he knew staying in one place might be better. He’d heard talk that some of Arcadia’s dispossessed settlers had turned up on a planet called, Ne’rdowell. He’d been rewarded, but not completely. He’d […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Eleven Toliver knew he must have had two-week periods that he liked less than the one he was facing, but for the life of him, he couldn’t remember. He couldn’t recall anything before waking up in Mudfog. Maddening. The only saving grace in the current situation was that he had more time to practice […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Ten Eni shared her berth with Susan James, cook and back-up systems chief, who flame of red hair cascaded down her back. Before this, Eni had only ever seen it in the single, thick braid Susan wore when working. Eni had rich, chestnut-brown hair that suited her well and Stavo called beautiful. She smiled […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Ten After dinner, Toliver hoped to have a chance to talk to Janeannie outside, but Joad waited for him by the exit and motioned him out of line. Joad turned without waiting and Toliver followed him to the front and up onto the stage. By the time they stood by the family table, the […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Nine Eni walked the corridors of Phoenix station, trying to determine just where she was in relation to where she wanted to be. The mid-level corridor crawled with off-duty station’s crews at shift’s end. Most just hurried home to their beds, but in places people strolled or clumped together in small drifts before the […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Nine Toliver decided that two days had never felt so long as the Saturday and Sunday before Janeannie and the girls left for the market. A slavant he couldn’t remember seeing brought his lunch on Saturday. The rest of the day, Toliver spent putting together an order for Wurst that Joad had given him […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
“What is it? You know something.” “I can’t say,” Eni told him. “This is about what Norris said, isn’t it?” Stavo asked. “When he said we’d all be sorry soon.” “I can’t say,” Stavo didn’t press. Norris had connections at the station, but wouldn’t be as scrupulous about not naming something which should be kept […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
One Sunday, Wurst brought a small, cool-laser carving tool and, after clearing it with an unhappy Joad, showed Toliver how to use it. Wurst had tied it into Joad’s InnerAI, and also coded it so it couldn’t be used on soft tissue. With the small size and limitations, Toliver felt these precautions were almost useless. […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Please forgive the short entry, due to the author being a bit under the weather. Chapter Eight Stavo hadn’t spoken to Eni that morning. He acted kind and treated her better than he might have, but he knew his patience was stretched thin. With a stern glance he had left her to her hang hangover […]
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