Three hundred years in the future, mankind still is trying to survive the Great Collision that changed the earth forever. People live in pockets of civilization called compounds, battling the elements and the mutations which have developed over the centuries, trying to live and survive day by day...
Peering closely, she observed the texture. “Mmm. Fibers. This material was woven.” “Kelen?” Someone thumped on the outer door. Getting to her feet, she walked over and swiped the glyph next to the opening. The portal dropped into the floor, and Sandow stepped inside. He glan...
Slowly, he raised his head to see Jules, Cooter, and Gaveer standing near the doorway. Fullgrath hovered behind them. They had noticed him in the bed pit with Kelen. “How’s she doing?” Jules walked over to the lip of the depression and crouched down. He reached over and touched her sho...
Cherron. Liam? Liam! T’kor! Where…where are you? The Arra have me. I’m on their ship. Forgive me, my love, for abandoning you. No! No, you didn’t abandon me. Oh, God, Liam, what did they do to you? I felt such terrible pain coming from you! They wanted ...
Calmly he stood his ground until Carl was upon him. As the heavy metal buckle arced downward, he ducked and nimbly took a step sideways. The buckle sliced air, and Carl went yelling past him. Quickly he ventured a glance over to where Hannah lay on the tarmac. There was blood running from her sca...
Laughter. People talking. The smell of coffee and bacon wafted through the room. The bed and the room felt strangely empty, but he knew Challa wasn’t far away. Compton barely had time to open his eyes when the bedroom door flew open and she danced into the room. “Good morning, t’kor! I felt you s...
Lawn hesitated briefly in the doorway before walking slowly toward the bed and the figure standing behind it. Everything felt surreal. "Let me make love to you, Lawn. Trust me." "I do trust you. It's just the fact that..." "That I'm not a real man?" Deep moved to the side of the bed. "Close your ...
Jolee fumbled in her skirt pocket, looking for the cell phone while Ferra waved a fork in her direction. “Sixty gajillion ring tones and songs you could put on that thing, and you have it ring like a regular old phone. And you call yourself a marketing director?""Oh, hush. Ah, here it is.” Jolee ...
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Atty glanced up to see Paxton had moved over to walk beside her. She glanced around at the other hunters walking in a single vertical file or by twos, rather than in a wide horizontal line as they had starting out. It made the going faster, as well as helped them better protect the wounded Mutah ...
I mean, after all, they always seem to know where we are every moment, anyway. Plus, there's always this if they think we're getting into places we shouldn't." Meredith held up her arm bearing the neon pink cuff. The alien adjusted itself on the pillows. "You have asked that question r...
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“One hundred twenty-one messages?” she repeated. She glanced over at the view screen where the immense alien ship nearly filled the entire window. “Granth, how many of those messages were in Objurian?” The communications officer glanced at his board. “One hundred twenty.” “What are you thinking?”...
Overhead, the stars peeked between the leaves of the trees that were mere shadows against the darkness. To his left, a little more than a twenty yards away, was that damn statue the city had commissioned and put up at the entrance of the children’s park. Kiel would bet eve...
Behind them, the oncoming quake advanced at an inconceivable rate of speed. There was no way they could outrun it. It would reach them and seize them in its destructive grip within seconds. As they rounded a small curve, Mellori stumbled to a halt. “We won’t make it! Flatten yourself a...
Of course, taking a walk around the compound to point out and note problem areas in the wall and other defenses helped to eat up the hours, thanks in large part to the Wallis women who had shooed them away from the tables so they could begin to set up for the celebration. Twice Yulen spotted MaGr...
The compound’s walls loomed out of the foggy bank like a ghostly presence. Constructed out of huge earthen bricks mortared together with red clay dirt, the perimeter looked resilient and imposing. Atty stared upward, trying to spot the parapet, but it remained shrouded in white mist. T...