Space + Science Fiction Stories

A Swarm Cycle Story
An AI gets curious when a young MIT student darkens the doorway of a CAP testing centre. "I hate it when an AI gets curious!" She's HOW old, again? From the files of the Office of Targeted Extractions. / (Reviews)

Tiffany Winters never *wanted* to be the Hunter - chosen by fate and magic to slay the ravenous undead and monsters that stalked the night of her hometown. But what Tiff wanted and what Tiff got was never in the same ballpark...and never before has that been more true. Tonight, Tiff is about to go on an adventure more wild, more dangerous, and more amazing than anything in her entire life. And she's not even out of high school yet!

A story INSPIRED by, but not part of, the Swarm Universe. The Confederacy is found culpable in the deaths of his parents because of an AI withholding information, resulting in a whole new world opening up for our MC, DeDeus Sanderson. Read of his encounters with the Confederacy and others as he gathers colonists.

Adventures of Vin - The Beginning?
Adventures of a group of start up mercenaries. Set loosely in the Mechwarrior universe.

A Not-Quite Human Story (3)
Unable to find a home and acceptance on Earth, an intrepid band of misplaced youth seek out their ancestral home among the stars. Unfortunately, their reception is not what they were hoped. The home they discover is a hostile place, involved in a huge interstellar war with an hostile alien species. Viewed as untrusted interlopers, they search for a place in a universe with no use for them, with little place to turn for assistance.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
An ecological engineer is transferred to the war-torn Rask territory, site of the deposed Matriarch's deadly rebellion, where he's tasked with helping to restore the damaged jungles. To his surprise, he's quickly put in command of a pack of ex-soldiers who are more concerned with jockeying for status than learning how to drive a tractor. Finding his place in the hierarchy might be just as hard as greening the desert.

The next installment of Sam Atwood's adventure in food, time and space. Incomplete for now.

A Swarm Cycle Story
A direct follow on to Woolly Wilds. Set in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle Universe, a family has been 'collected' but they didn't quite realise the consequences. This is the continuing story of Llew Carter, Confederacy Intelligence. / (Reviews)

I will be posting a range of flash fictions of various lengths from really short to just a bit longer than short, but not a short story. They won't take you more than a few minutes to read in full but I hope you get a laugh, a tear or just some enjoyment out of them.

A Swarm Cycle Story
Tom Porter was alone on his space tug, positioning mines out beyond the orbit of Saturn, and he liked it that way -- but a disaster at his pickup point left him with all kinds of responsibility... This is a Swarm Cycle story