The TV had lied to her, space travel wasn’t exciting and adventurous, it was boring. Erin picked at the pattern sewn into the bedspread, trying to pull the metallic threads free of the backing. There wasn’t much else to vent her anger on, the hastily converted storeroom only contained the bed and a spare camping…
Keeping Watch
It was such a small loss, compared to the war raging around them, but the Seventh Company took it hard. She was buried with all honors, just below her favorite perch on the aging willow tree. They took some flak for it, especially from Fifth Company, but as the weeks passed they found themselves returning…
Daily Snippit: High/Second World Fantasy
It had all started innocently enough. Fay was standing in a maddeningly slow line at the bookstore, skimming through the first chapter of her new acquisitions, when there had been a blinding flash. As her eyes readjusted, she had caught a glimpse of something ripping hole in the air and malevolent looking blue and purple…
Daily Snippit: Science Fiction
It’s little things that make you homesick. Right now it’s a dark room lit with backlight and amber. Filters on the lights send shadows flickering across the walls, dark upon dark. Climate controls raise the humidity, incense adds the tang of the forests. All I need is a wav of crissl calls and I’ll be…
Daily Snippit: Urban/Suburban Fantasy
Someone had moved the world while she was at lunch. Tara stared at her desk in confusion, it was the same and yet subtly different. Subtly wrong. The stapler was still where she had put it, the in and out boxes still held the same papers. Even the cheesy little Christmas tree Shawn had given…