2 years ago
A Care Givers Company story The Best and the Brightest Part I BY Maggie Finson I came awake slowly, my consciousness swimming up from the darkness and gradually, reluctantly acknowledging my surroundings. Various twinges, and dull pains announced themselves almost gleefully, letting me know that things weren't right in the body I had kept in such superb condition...
2 years ago
Footprints In The Sea - Chapters 11 & 12 By Frances Penwiddy Copyright © Frances Penwiddy 2015 Footprints in the sea is a work of fiction and any similarity to persons living or dead is coincidental. This novel is not considered suitable material for minors and is rated X I suggest you read Footprints In The Sea in chapter order so if you haven't read Chapters 1 and 2, please do so. Aurora, Maritime 5 and Awac Papa Alpha 2 have a pin-up and Charlotte meets a...
3 years ago
It was the cook who?d heard the rumour first. It seemed incredible, but Rab had skulked outside the captain?s door and had heard her voice. He hadn?t been able to hear what they were saying, but he?d said their tone was sombre. There were those, of course, who?d said a single woman shouldn?t have been on the ship in the first place, but Tom had listened to the speech she?d given when she?d first boarded and he?d been impressed. She?d introduced herself then as Laura Berkeley, the daughter of...
4 years ago
20Jas0008, The Labors of Jasper Episode 08; 4201 words Early the next morning, a little past three, each fey employee received notice that their consular passports had been warranted anew and that quarantine was waived. An hour after that, the human employees of JL Recovery Services were informed that quarantine was waived for them, too. Team Five loaded up in one of the Range Rovers and drove off. Master Hoose provided an address and directions. Athan asked Yara if her...
4 years ago
I'm flying the airplane Voyager I'm flying the airplane. A wing dips and I turn the wheel, scraping ailerons on the frozen air. The plane yaws; I reach up and adjust the trim. It rolls; I pull back on the yoke. We level off. I'm scared, afraid of losing control, of falling. But still, I'm flying. It's my skill that keeps us in the air, keeps the passengers safe. The passengers... ? I look around the cockpit, confused. The plane starts to fall off. I correct. Concentrate, damn it!...
2 years ago
A nudge and the glare from a red tinted flashlight woke Tammy from her restless sleep. A voice in the darkness whispered “Lt. Olsen. Wake up. It’s 0240. You’re on watch in twenty minutes.” “I’m up…I’m up” Tammy replied sleepily. This seemed to appease the soldier and she heard the sentry shuffling out of the tent. The young nurse sat up in her bunk and let her eyes gradually adjust to the low light. Pulling on her bulky green Army fatigues she smiled at how easy it was to dress in the dark when...
4 years ago
The large wooden sailboat was very out of place. First, the monsters in the ocean could probably swallow it. Second, it was never meant to travel on water. Third, it was floating seven hundred meters above the ground and a couple of hundred meters above the trees below. My place was a couple of days east of the northern colony on Addison's World. I brought the boat down close to the colony market area. The landing legs extending and the boat settled before I shut down the hydrogen reactor. I...
2 years ago
My name is Major John Burns and I am a member of the Confederacy Fleet Auxiliary. I have a 9.2 CAP which entitled me to eight Concubines. Under special colony rules I was granted two additional concubines, one a mother figure and one a medical professional. Their names are Joan our mother figure with fifteen children, Jackie with sixteen children, Frank our male and Gynecologist, Lisa with fourteen children, Alexandria with fifteen children, Jean with fifteen children, Rhonda with fourteen...
3 years ago
We moved as quickly as possible toward the Aviation area in the near total darkness of this moonless night. Chinese New Year is celebrated on the new moon, and it was very dark here in the Shan States at night without the moon. There were no lights showing in the town either. The Aviation people that we encountered on the way were very nervous, but we managed to get to their command bunker without getting shot. "What were those explosions? We couldn't contact your Operations," Captain...
4 years ago
Things moved along through the summer. At times it seemed as if for every step we took forward we were taking two steps back. Still, some good things happened. Our new Auto Theft Division made a major arrest mid-June. They grabbed a few cars out of the impound yard and fitted them with GPS trackers and allowed them to be stolen. That generated enough information to get warrants on a pair of ‘chop shops’, garages where stolen cars could be taken and stripped for parts. Lieutenant Dupree of...
4 years ago
"Campbell, heads up! Ingles just told us the computers are rigged," Jones said over the radio. There was a short pause, "Campbell!" "All clear. All clear," Rogers, the team member assigned to watch over Campbell responded. "He's taken his headset off and can't hear you, but he's fine." Before the radio conversation was half over, Jeff rounded the bottom of the stairs, grabbed the rail and launched himself, hard. Lieutenant Richardson was right behind Jeff for the first few steps,...
4 years ago
... Ten minutes later, "Medic! Medic!" Carter's voice came over the radio. "Ingles isn't breathing." Fisher's head snapped up from what she was doing. Turning, she met Jeff's eyes from halfway across the lab. He stared back at her. She had wondered when Jeff and Bill left together so ... casually. Now she suddenly knew. She had no idea how they had done it, but she knew they had. The stare had lasted for three or four seconds when a smile twitched the corner of her mouth. She went...
4 years ago
As they talked, they heard a helicopter approach and land close by. Ames’ aide got out, followed by Kevin Murphy who was carrying a cardboard box. He ran up and saluted Kelly who then looked at him carefully. His eyes still showed black, but there was now only a Band-Aid across the bridge of his nose. He saluted Ames and said, “General, your lunch, sir!” He opened the box and Kelly started to laugh. In the box were a dozen wrapped hot dogs. She helped herself and passed the box around. Solov...
2 years ago
It took three days for Kaisha to return. The nurses tended to him in the meantime, and he did his leg exercises, passing the time by sleeping or watching the insipid station entertainment channel. They wouldn’t show anything too violent or stimulating. Apparently, television did not exist on Borealis, and action movies made the aliens too excited. One of the more talkative nurses had explained that after an incident where a pack of recruits had destroyed the Pinwheel’s movie theater,...
2 years ago
"I am very sure, Colonel Baccus," Lieutenant Salim Al Khoury said confidently into the telephone. "We captured another Order heretic. He was a boy, just sixteen years old, and he didn't die as quickly as the others. He still died during the questioning, but, before he died, he gave us information. He had completed his induction ceremony into the Order of the Seeker less than two weeks ago. He told us an American had been identified as the Seeker. That is THE Seeker, sir. My understanding...