Science Fiction Stories

A story in the Catalum Universe
The Interstellar Mining Ship Arcadia comes across a solar system that defies reality and doesn't exist on sensors.

Time Travel. We didn't have a choice and damn little time to prepare (read none) It all worked out though...HA!

A Swarm Cycle Story
The Salah al-Din returns to Earth after years away, and finds that some uninvited guests have also arrived. This story is obviously heavily indebted to Duke of Ramus' story "In the Name of the Prophet". My thanks to him.

A Swarm Cycle Story
The pick-up is finally happening! Even better, my girlfriend, her sister and their two friends are sitting in the restaurant where I work, in my section even. Only problem is, I am on the wrong side of the grey barrier! Never, ever ask “What else could possibly go wrong?”

A truly romantic story. In a zoo, but not bestiality. With aliens, but not interracial. An unfaithful wife, but not cheating. Oh, and a baby girl, but no paedophilia.

Alexander Nathaniel Wilson Hollister was thirteen years old, and his friends called him Alex. Every Saturday, Alex went to the mall with Matt and Alan to play video games. They took a break and went to the food court for lunch and girl-watching. Returning to the arcade, Alex was tackled by a man running through the mall. He was driven into a planter and knocked unconscious. Alex woke up in the hospital and found out he had been in a medically induced coma for a week.

A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Four years ago, Kes Marrow's only flagged stat moved for half a second — long enough to mark him, not long enough to mean anything. The Integration has been waiting on him ever since: Reassess upon measurable engagement. Tonight he's slipping past the colony fence with his two best friends, hiking three klicks to a Flux rift that pulses teal in the dark. He's spent four years calling it a defect. He has no idea what's actually waiting for him in that light. He's done waiting to find out.

A Swarm Cycle Story
It's not always what you know, it's not even usually who you know... or what you know about who. Sometimes it's what the who knows about you... and how well you work with that who.