In the future the world is no longer the one we know. Small districts are spread across the planet's surface with many having to find their own sources of power. One such district has a method but it need volunteers for the program and they get those volunteers any way they need.
Our family cleaned up the trashed vehicles left on the streets of Chicago's south side. I cleaned up my act and went to college. Our camping advisor had an ulterior motive. He was the agent for humans on an alien planet. They called it Cottman IV, or Darkover.
Conscripted into the service was expected but not what happened to my sister. When we got to War it was devastating as men died around me. Then we found a way to even the odds and it was the sergeants and officers who died. Only when that happened our government abandoned us and we learned about the laws here on War and what we could do.
Colony world of Crocodylia
A young man raised in the swamps of Crocodylia brings a teenager and a scientist home. One has a crush and the other has to complete a study of the animals.
After being badly injured falling down a quarry, Henry is rescued by a young elf who decides to repair his body and keep him as her mate. But will he want to stay with her?
Thomas Morgan, a disillusioned former U.S. Army soldier, is drifting through life as a salvager in the deserts of the Southwest. Haunted by his past and seeking purpose, he stumbles across a bizarre artifact in the ruins of a decommissioned military research facility—a sleek, palm-sized orb pulsating with energy. The orb, a self-contained AI named Solace, introduces itself as an ancient construct designed by a lost alien civilization. Solace reveals that hidden beneath the sands lies the Erebus
Captain Alan Drayk is a soldier fighting a neverending war against the relentless and brutal Me'ria alien race. The death of his parents fuels his anger to kill the Me'ria but when he meets the beautiful hybrid Nyx, his bloodlust mission becomes complicated.
A Personalia story Part of the Personalia universe
A two-chapter 'Personalia' story that came to me when I was thinking about something completely different. Enjoy.