Fiction
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This is a list of all the stories available here to read, and you can choose to read them from the start, or go to a specific chapter, via the links below:
Warp Riders
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Warp Riders – Chapter 1
The thing was, they’d been living out of time for … well, some time, and…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 2
On the fourth night, as the dusk brightened on the horizon and the rest of…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 3
The Stowaway had shown up after their last gig. The four of them had fled…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 4
The smell of coffee brought the Captain out of her tent as the green sun…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 5
The Engineer was a helpful person at heart; she just, often, found herself worn out…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 6
The Bosun watched her superior officers bicker while she brewed another pot of coffee over…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 7
The Orb had come to them about a year after they’d officially started running gigs…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 8
The Navigatrix found camp life surprisingly nice. She’d spent most of her life in flight;…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 9
They’d crashed on a very accommodating moon, it turned out. The weather was clear, the…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 10
She tossed and turned in her tent later, trying to get some sleep, unnerved by…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 11
The next planetrise, she dragged herself out of her tent and drank half the Bosun’s…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 12
No one did anything so rude as to, say, sigh with relief as the Captain…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 13
The Captain thought of herself as the most physically capable of the crew. She was…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 14
Back at camp, the Stowaway lay in the planetglow, visibly relaxing, until the Navigatrix was…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 15
The Captain was nearly at the top of the ridge. Climbing was much harder than…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 16
It wasn’t that the Navigatrix was worried about the Captain, but it was very out…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 17
The Captain was cold, somehow still damp after hours of lying in the dark, headlamp…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 18
If it was possible for the subsequent silence to be awkward, after all their years…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 19
Wind whistled across the cave mouth, sending a deeper hum around the cavern. The Captain…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 20
The drips were louder, echoing all over the cavern. She didn’t feel like sitting up…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 21
Both headlamps swept to the far end of the cave, where an enormous fountain of…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 22
“Just going to have to rearrange us a bit, Captain, so I can reach the…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 23
They didn’t light the next flare until they bumped the far wall, mercifully with the…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 24
The two of them looked at one another in the light of the flare. “Shit…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 25
Just like she scaled the stone pillar, the Navigatrix climbed the cliff surprisingly quickly, pulling…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 26
They wheezed for a few minutes, the sand and dust of the slope getting into…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 27
And so the Captain sat in the sidecar, her splinted leg resting on the dash,…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 28
The Stowaway had pulled themselves up one of the alien trees within eyeline of the…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 29
The Navigatrix was extremely happy to see camp peeking between the trees; the Captain was…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 32
The gig that had given them the Stowaway had been suspect from the start.
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Warp Riders – Chapter 33
The Bosun didn’t want to impugn the intelligence of her fellow crewmates, but there was…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 34
The Engineer was condemning the Navigatrix’s gun maintenance from inside her tent when the noise…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 35
The Captain, upon being shaken awake, would not agree that she’d had worse. The world…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 36
The Navigatrix’s head was ringing; what was she supposed to do now? The Orb was…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 37
The Bosun had learned some pretty unsettling things about their antagonist. First, he – because…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 38
The Captain watched the eddying gas swirling around the floor of the tent, gently frying…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 39
The Engineer had rigged the camp stove into a very, very clumsy plasma cannon, stealing…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 40
The second the sound hit them, the Navigatrix flattened herself against the Captain, in what…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 41
The Bosun climbed over the fallen stones to find them lying on their backs staring…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 42
No one was responding, no matter how loud the Captain shouted. She had the distinct…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 43
The tide was pulling out, and the current of the rushing water had pushed them…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 44
After they had coaxed her back into the makeshift infirmary for a proper walking splint…
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Warp Riders – Chapter 45
Later, while the Bosun and the Stowaway properly emptied Lucy’s remaining things out of her…
Wolf Neighbours
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 1
The fog was thick, obscuring the rippling roots of the twisted cedar trees, and the…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 2
Gove jogged through the swamp, easily following the trail of destruction. A small herd —…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 3
Miter had to take a few minutes to calm his own herd down after the…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 4
“So it was definitely a person?” Miter nodded, pausing to scan the terrain. “Yes, maybe…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 5
Miter had nearly fallen into the stagnant water when Gove had pushed him aside, and…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 6
Summer was at its peak. The muskoxen were sleepy and languid for most of the…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 7
The swamp drained slowly down into the river valley, via sparkling creeks and singing waterfalls;…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 8
The sun was high in the sky as they reached the river’s floodplain, but down…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 9
Miter wasn’t stomping, exactly, but he moved firmly into the crowd and exhaled loudly as…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 10
As Miter finished his own trading, he saw Gove was still talking to Empul; they…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 11
The north circuit guardsen were equipped in proper armor, heavy broad iron plates tied together…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 12
Captain Yaska started with a formal greeting, gesturing at the river and the buildings and…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 13
The town had felt easy and open when Gove had arrived; now the fog made…
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Wolf Neighbours – Chapter 14
Miter needed a hand getting himself back on his feet; he’d landed on his bad…