Hey folks. So I've waffled for a long time about whether to post my work on this site. On another thread, I got a bit of encouragement from Shadar so I'm going to share this. It's my first ever story. It's fairly short, although there is a second story that continues on from where this one ends. Obviously, any feedback is more than welcome. I'll let the reaction to this one determine if I post an ...

Bubblegum 5, Book 0 (Prelude) First Contact They came like they did on those old cheesy sci-fi movies, so much so that for a while the news media thought it was a hoax or a publicity stunt. It was an actual flying saucer that perched on the white house lawn like a giant errant silver Frisbee. The Secret Service agents were the only ones not laughing. Bomb squad robots went out first. The sniffing ...

More Than One Way To Skin an Arion By Velvet Belle Tree --------------------------------------------- WRITTEN FOR SGI WORKSHOP 1.3 Authors Note: This is the second adventure of Arish’ka, a Vel who’s been assigned to Earth and is living incognito. Please go to the Bright Empire to learn more about her and her encounter with a man who definitely earned the sobriquet Studley. ----------------------- ...

And I Feel Fine by Whitepaw Clouds hung scattered across the sunset like a loosing hand of G_d’s solitaire, just before folding over to darkness. She dangled a slender leg over the high platform bars of the transmission tower, high up on Telegraph Hill, wondering what she was all about and how she was supposed to fit into the metropolitan civilization sprawled across the desert at her feet. The d ...

Dropping By by Whitepaw She held the diamond necklace up in the streetlight and smiled warmly. It was the first genuine gesture any boy had ever made to her… the Girl, not the Power. She’d played it cool for once: no powers, baggy, frumpy clothes, makeup haphazardly… It was just a tiny fleck of a stone, what she could have ground up from just a pinch of carbon between her fingers but— The cab dro ...