The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part X

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part X

Nine Washington D.C., Earth President Anthony Gomez was finding the White House a little too quiet these days, with his best friend and most trusted advisor gone over a thousand light-years away.  Gomez presided over a United States enjoying an unprecedented...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part X

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part VIII

Seven Tarbos, the Main Conference Hall The Main Hall was full, full of delegates and their aides in the front, families, friends and curious Tarbosians in the rear.  Bob Pritchard strode into the room, walking purposefully up the main aisle to the front of the...

Semi-notorious local political gadfly and general pain in the ass. I’m firmly convinced that the Earth and all its inhabitants were placed here for my personal amusement and entertainment, and I comport myself accordingly. Vote Animal/STEVE SMITH 2028!

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part VII 

Six The Star of Carolina, in transit “Did you ever imagine anything like it?” One of the Star of Carolina’s outstanding features was its observation bubble, a large poly-steel blister on the outer hull that offered a slowly rotating view of space – or, in this case,...

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part V 

Four High Earth Orbit An enormous disk of a ship coasted slowly towards high Earth orbit.  A slight glow of a Gellar drive under one-quarter power slowly edged the enormous disk into the parking orbit recently vacated by the passenger liner Star of Carolina, just...

The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part XXII

Twenty-One Outskirts, at sunset Mary Lenell was just walking back from Outskirt’s tiny mercantile towards the cabin on the north end of town that she shared with her security officer husband when she heard the buzzing sound. She looked up from the red dust of the road...