Izzy paced on the console in the linguistics lab, making the turn along the edge without even looking. She’d paced it off more than a few times; usually, when Lauryna was this busy, she’d leave her friend alone…well, okay, that was a lie, but Izzy would at least try to leave Lauryna alone. But they …
Chapter Eighteen: Try On My Starry Crown Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate–and quickly.” –Robert A. Heinlein “You can unshackle her,” Navarchos Bass said, as the tall young woman was led into the brig. “She’s my …
Tales of Avalon: Scar Tissue by D..X. Machina
I shot an arrow toward the sky, It hit a white cloud floating by. The clould fell dying to the shore, I don’t shoot arrows anymore. —Shel Silverstein, “Arrows” -1- “Sir, are you seeing this?” “You got the spyglass, Calamity. What’s ‘this?’ ” “Sorry, sir, ” Palemst Jain said. “The bandits aren’t retreating past that …
Chapter Seventeen: Finite Disappointment Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.” –Robert Fripp Darren looked at his pad, trying his best to get a lock on someone, anyone, who was a friendly. This was necessarily going to be a human; the one salient part of being registered as someone’s pet is that you end up with …
Chapter 2: Welcome to the Empire Titan: Pursuit by JohnnyScribe
The first thing she noticed was the metallic smell in the air. It was if someone was turning her senses on one at a time by flipping switches in her brain. First her sense of smell, and that odd taste in the air, the sound of a low hum, like that of an engine and …
And that was all… Titan:Exile By Dann
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” Chuck Thompson “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller Sometime …
Chapter Sixteen: Whom Ventured All to Save Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy.” –Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” Decanus Aigine Orgin had been a peacekeeper on four different stations, and had eleven years of experience dealing with criminals and thugs. He had once broken up a fight at Norvsekal Station that had involved six Insectoids, four Titans, and a …
Chapter Fifteen: ‘Cause We Don’t Know the Game Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“I have a thing. It’s like a plan, but with more greatness.” –The Eleventh Doctor “What on Archavia happened here?” Aertimus looked around the wreckage of the infirmary which had until very recently housed Hala Nejem. The two idiot guards were just coming around from being stunned; Dr. Geen was tending to Rixie, a nasty …
End of Discussion Titan Vignettes by Johnny Scribe
“Thyllia, I said ‘no’ and that’s final!” The little girl who was being thus addressed stamped her foot petulantly. “That’s not fair! You’re just being mean to me!” Pryvani sighed and rubbed her temples wearily. She did not need to have a fight with her younger sister at that moment. There were too many other …
First Intermission Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina
“In this bright future you can’t forget your past.” –Bob Marley Tigoni Belfsec breathed in heavily as she stood over the woman who had been tormenting Maj. Nejem. To be fair, she hadn’t seen the woman torment Maj. Nejem, but the human was being held captive by giant aliens; near as Tig could figure, torment …