The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVII

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVII

SixteenMarch 2253 Next morning Mike Crider Junior woke up slowly, blinking at the bright morning light glancing in through the blinds.  His condominium apartment was on the sixteenth floor of a building only a kilometer from his Senate offices; the morning sun...

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XVII

The Crider Chronicles: The Orleans Incident – Part XV

FourteenJanuary 2253 New Albion Glengarry was now reduced to a smoking ruin; the Grugell had briefly withdrawn from the surface, and three days later bombarded the city with five fission bombs.  The guerillas continued to operate in the Crow Ridge mountains,...

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: Forest – Part IV

Three Two years later:  Challis. A light snow was falling as Mike guided his aged Ford into Challis, the large flakes reflecting the lights of the growing town, striking stars where skimmer headlights struck through the tiny falling crystals. Sparkles of light...

The Crider Chronicles: Forest – Part III

Two Armstrong City, Luna “Andrea, don’t just stand there. The checked bags have gone on ahead. There’s no turning back now. Jenny, have you got your stuff? Let’s go!” Paul Aggruder was more than ready to leave the Moon’s gypsum mining colony. Three years they had...

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones X

Ten Barrett and her crew followed Gomp, who was tracking the pod of the Hive that had taken Amole and his men. The creatures had made no effort to cover their tracks, and when one group, then another, fell in alongside Barrett’s party and made no move to interfere...