Three soft high tones alternated with three slightly lower ones; not loud or obnoxious but definitely insistent. Amanda blinked away the sleep from her eyes. She was slumped against the door, the bedcover wrapped around her. She’d tried sleeping in the bed but planetside gravity made her want to hurl whenever she lay flat for…
Category: Series
An ongoing set of stories.
Captive Orbit – 2
It was quiet and still when she awoke. Very still. Something was very wrong. There was no hiss and hum of life support felt all wrong, too close, the wrong pitch, there was far more of a whine than there should be. There was an awful taste in her mouth, and her body ached in…
Volunteered – 1
The girls sat around the table, full from the meal but vaguely quiet. It had been a good evening. They were all out one last time at one of the nicer places in town to, if not enjoy themselves, at least have a good memory to say goodbye on. Ever since they were young they’d…
Captive Orbit – 1
She ran through the open hatchway and practically slammed into the bulkhead, dumping her bag as she did. Reorienting herself she turned on the run and headed for the cockpit, slapping the hatch closure button on her way through. What followed was a practised leap that took her legs up over the back of the…
The First Day – 2
Consciousness came to her quickly in the darkness. She tried to turn her head to the source of the sound but a searing pain reminded her that her new nose ring was tightly padlocked to the pole in front of her. From the corner of her eye she could see a crack of light in…
The First Day – 1
“PLEASE, NO, DON’T DO THIS, I’M BEGGING YOU” “Oh no, you little teasing slut, you don’t get out of this by begging. You don’t get out of this at all. Every day for years I had to put up with you and your friends from school walking past this house, throwing trash in my yard,…