The banquet hall was festooned with colorful paper lanterns and fairy lights. The color red predominated the room, supported by yellows and greens. The head table sat on a dais at the back of the room, fronting a large picture window. Smaller ro
Read more… The Proctor chose the resort world of Krestus for his vacation. He had a coastal residence on the planet’s largest continent, a modest size mansion. The surrounding grounds extended two miles inland, five miles along the coast. Armed surveillance
I swore I wasn’t going to step into this pool of body fluids and who-knew-what. So the next best thing was to swing out over it using the chains. It was a pretty heartless means, but I consoled myself with the likelihood these people had been hanging
Read more…Thorns extending from dense brambles tore tender flesh, clothing and lashed at terrified eyes threatening to rob their owners of sight. To lose so valued a sense would be disastrous for the two ladies as they plunged deep into the dark of night and a
Read more…Awaking once more with a loud scream, Sergeant Maresh sat up gasping and shuddering. Covered in sweat, he looked about confused as to where he was. What he saw in the low candlelight was a sumptuous bedchamber. Beneath him was a fine cotton-filled ma
Read more…The pounding of blood awakened Sergeant Maresh. His head felt ready to explode and he realized he was hanging upside-down. He attempted to move his arms which took considerable effort for they like his head were swollen with blood.
The Sergeant
Read more…Sergeant Maresh did a final walk around the camp perimeter before he saw to his bedroll. The three junior patrolmen on watch were arranged in triangle formation. Nothing would get past them without at least another set of eyes seeing it. He was conce
Read more…Searing pain, like so many fiery little multi-pronged blades ricocheting in his head…a sensation of flying, followed by the blunt force agony of impact…his breathing constricted…as if a malevolent hand were wrapped around his heart and squeezing…sq
Read more…Time. Time is the thing feared most by those who have passed beyond the grasp of death. Life Eternal should garner the same sense of dread for those within the sphere of mortality as does an eternal demise. However... only an infinitesimally small fr
Read more… The dead marauders called their ship Bloody Thorn. Alec renamed it Redemption. No longer would the ship be used to wreak misery and havoc upon innocents.
Alec spent the better part of a day period studying the specs on his newly repurposed ass
Read more… A thousand ships under Alec’s command soared into fold-space, leaving behind the battered, twisted wrecks of a defeated foe. The Ulyians and the Crosians, bitter enemies, joined together to put an end to this cursed former UE officer once and for a
The planet Jeran was the United Empire’s capitol world for five hundred years. The ravages of a brief but destructive interregnum scarred much of the planet’s surface, leaving a cruel, indelible mark on its population’s psyche.
Jeran was chose
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