Earth Shine by Shadar May 2019 Prologue Those prepared for the Second Coming called it the Hammer of God. Their eyes gleamed in anticipation of the fulfillment of scripture. Somber but excited, they mourned the world but were eager for Heaven. Hipsters called it Dino, as in, Dinosaur-grade extinction event. An overly cute name for the horror of The End of the world. Most of them were trying to st ...

Earth Shine Part Three by Shadar June 2019 Chapter Eight The Arion HQ along the rugged Washington coast. (While Pete was struggling to fit into the Velorian camp, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Bull Satrop of Texas, a man who had turned his back on his country, his planet and even his species to support the Arions, was struggling inside the Arion Headquarters.) Bull jo ...

Embassy Brat By Shadar Edits: August, 2019/Jan, 2020 Chapter One Jon Duncan paced nervously out in the desert, staring back down the empty road that ran long and straight back to town, revealing nothing but wavy heat. He wondered if she was going to show. The girl he waited for was Jennie Val’spar, and she wasn’t technically human. She was from the sub-species Homo Sapiens Supremis. To be more sp ...

Freya’s Story by Shadar Written for the SWM Winter 2016 story contest Prologue The young woman stood silently with her fists clenched as she stared up at the massive door. The purplish metal shimmered from the forcefield surrounding the ship and the air was filled with the scream of engines as the armored warship prepared for take-off. But they were too late this time. Despite her adoptive parent ...

Chapter Three Rev 3 I pulled my eyes from Commander John Lennon’s frozen smile, and turned to look at the other silent bodies. These Terrans had found their ultimate freedom. More importantly, they’d given their lives to buy their families a chance to live. Now the burden of helping the escaping colony ships was firmly on my shoulders, as impossible as that was. I’d woken this morning to begin an ...