StarTroopers Episode Three by Shadar I was eager to talk about my new job, but I didn’t get the chance during the chopper ride to the old K I Sawyer airbase. Jacobs was on his phone the whole way. My headset was on the crew inter-channel, which was professionally silent. The pilots were busy talking to each other and ATC, but I couldn’t hear that either. Just the whine of the engines and whirr ...

StarTroopers By Shadar Draft: April, 2012 Final: March, 2018 (This is one of a number of stories I started but then abandoned and am now restarting. This story-space is set in the near future, and is influenced by a variety of events and movies over the last few decades, including Starship Troopers.) Prologue No one doubted that the insect-like aliens were going to return. The Earth had been on ...

Super Sheena by Shadar February, 2018 Vic Casey studied the older professorial-looking man who was working his way stiffly down the stairway of the Tigoran Airways plane. He looked like an aging hippie with his round glasses, hair and beard long and gray, yet Professor Fraser was world-renown for his work in genetically altering DNA to make his research animals stronger and healthier than any ...

Trainwreck by Shadar February 11, 2015 James found himself staring at the costumed blonde as she held what had to be a ten-ton bolder over her head. Which wasn’t as impressive as it sounded given she’d been holding a locomotive the same way only moments before. She was cleaning up from the train wreck she’d just stopped. He squinted through the viewfinder at her as he snapped his Nikon as fast ...

Amy stopped typing on her laptop for the fifth time in the last hour. Stealing a glance over at the mirror that rested on the nearby table, she checked her hair. She still couldn’t decide if her long blonde hair looked better in a ponytail or just down in its normal straight style. She frowned as she pondered it, deciding once again to try the ponytail. Five minutes later she immediately thought ...