The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part I

The Crider Chronicles: Confederacy – Part I

Sep 29, 2025

Tarbos The year 2234CE was to be a momentous one in human history.  Early in that year, Robert Pritchard, the Project Director for Off-World Mining & Exploration’s operations on the planet Tarbos, called a meeting of delegates from the thirteen worlds to...

The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part XXX

The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part XXIX

Sep 15, 2025

Twenty-Eight Settlement Jenny woke once, just as dawn was breaking. She found herself on a rough pallet in the middle of the Mercantile, an IV line running into her arm. She turned her head towards a familiar voice. “Hey, girl,” Carrie Manns greeted her from the next...

Animal

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!

Alaska Ramblings I – Seward

Aug 2, 2021 | , ,

The Place On Sunday, July 25th, Mrs. Animal and I took our two visiting daughters down the Kenai Peninsula to the small town of Seward, the first of many neat little places in Alaska that we intend to visit – and on which I will report to you here. Like many places in...

Ask Animal I

Jul 5, 2021 |

Ask Animal My colleagues ZARDOZ and STEVE SMITH have been offering advice and counsel to Glibs, lurkers, ladies and gentlemen and persons of irregular birth for some time now, so I thought I’d join the fun.  However, just to set myself apart, instead of lifting advice...