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Spiral

Her curls cascaded over her shoulders, her forehead, her eyes. They bounced with her laughter and, when she kept her head down, hid the shy flush of her cheeks and the uncertainty in her eyes. His hand was warm and … Continue reading

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Cubies

This #ThursdayTales story is dedicated to Hel, who once told me during a viewing of  Aliens that he would get a boner too if he got to pilot a drop ship.  It was he who suggested the basic idea.  The … Continue reading

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What Makes a Man

"Devoia?  More like AVOID-YA!" Devoia didn’t know what to do, so she stood there humiliated as Jay walked away.  When she got home she cried into the soft fur of her artificial rabbit. Saturday morning Suzan called, all sunshine and … Continue reading

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Quill

Inspired by a handsome, dapper writer with long hair and a sexy accent.  Written for #SaturdayShortStories at io9. Before Paolo had found himself sequestered from the world in this quaint little cottage he was renting on the grounds of the … Continue reading

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The Heart of the Night

Written for io9’s #ThursdayTales and over the word count limit suggestion, this story is my second fan fiction (the first will be published for #SaturdayShortStories) and is based on Dark City by the niner known as kalaeth.  Before the jump … Continue reading

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Beautiful

Another #ThursdayTales story, This time under one thousand words YEAH!  Dedicated to S., who is a beautiful lady and doesn’t realize it. Ugly.  She’d always been ugly.  Her father had told her so, her schoolmates had told her so, when … Continue reading

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Still Be Strong

(Inspired by the DJ Sammy version of “The Boys of Summer”, and dedicated to my own Xan) The moons were high and bright and Lo was in her element, zooming above the algae-stained blue sand that blended in with the … Continue reading

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Reach

I’m a big fan of and member at io9, and we started a new thing this week, shamelessly ripping off FridayFlash. It’s called ThursdayTales (I know, I know but we liked the alliteration) and today is our inaugural sharing! Since … Continue reading

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Since I Suck at Updating…

I’m going to foist my other random internet posts here. Once again I present to you, something I wrote for Unmotivational Posters. Enjoy, and remember, leave the safeties on until the kid gets the guns out of her diaper.

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The Average Girl’s Lament

Ah, I have brought to the table another poorly-written poem. That is to say I have zero consistency, I just like to throw words in the air and let them land places. And I hate rhyming poems but sometimes they’re … Continue reading

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