Is it an ideal situation?  No.  Not in the slightest.  But you’ll live.  Your blood will continue to be pumped…

I sense your approach. You detect my presence but remain. First mistake. Your digits narrow and constrict––accessing the perceived threat.…

The corpseman peers out of the crater and spies the lifeless bodies of the lost patrol. Knowing the alien Vren…

Back then, my job was to strip the corpses and bundle clothes for reuse. I tugged shoes and tossed them…

Concerning all postgraduate students with access to the Einstein-Rosen laboratory:  Food and beverages are not allowed ANYWHERE in the restricted…

She knows only four things when she awakes on the silent spaceship, bleeding. There’s an alien on board. Someone shot…

You clean crashed space debris, but who cleans you?  Yesterday your gauntlet was punctured. You blamed shredded metal and continued…

The battle rages for a thousand years, until heaped casings stand like termite mounds, until the impassable stone walls of…

General Katutian stepped from her shuttle to survey the subjugated armies of her foe.  Against advice, she cracked the seal…