The Captain in the Powder Room
“Welcom aboard, er...lieutenant,” came the greeting from near a lantern’s dim light. An appropriate piping accompanied the heavy boots’ tread onto the deck…
Icy Pride
“All aboard!” Bowing, I grace the deck. Chiffons of the rich blow in the breeze. Denied that I exist, I race off to find my place. Evening comes soon, a morbid…
Like the Moon Says No
The hum of wind in the rigging set Jacoby to singing, softly at first, “She’s a dandy lass, a dandy lass, I’ll kiss ‘er cheek and smack her...” Across their…
Bad Decisions and Visions
Rain came down. Rain came left, and rain came right. Some rain defied all logic and came upwards from the heaving deck. Miguel swayed, a turbulent green…
(Day 21) Emotional Band-Aids
Some of the best memories I have of being in the service have nothing to do with the actual Navy itself. They have everything to do with the people I was…
Eyeing the Gap
I eyed the ship, both of us baked by the Caribbean sun. She lay almost upright, just a slight tilt to starboard there on the sand, almost akin to a tilting of…
Peace
Captain Marced stood on the bridge, his eyes fixed on the viewscreen. The other ship loomed large and ominous, its parallel course seemed unnatural and somehow…
Ships, Storms, and Barf
The winds blew heavily, causing the ship to careen upon the smoky gray waters. A girl with bright, yellow hair entwined her arms desperately around the silver…
The Circus
The poor were ferried into vast orbiting reservations to live like rats in a warren. The mad, the suicidal, the desperate were encouraged to join the Circus…
The White Ship and Little Men
She looked over the waves that rolled gently against her body out into the blue sea broken only by a white ship. She gave harbor to the ship and watched over…
Escape
“Okay, we’re on! Close the damn door!” Even in his current form, Jason was ever so quick to comply, as the rest of the survivors took their positions. Without…
Colony of the Dark
Jason Volkov didn’t like cats. Cats didn’t like him. And while this mutual dislike was a recent development, it had served him well nonetheless. After all, it…
End of the Line
Not even if you were the last man on Earth. She said that three years ago. At the time I was speechless, and just stood there with a dumb look on my face…
A journey of 58 miles begins with a single step
I walked out past the ship, heading eastwards. Lucas and I were nestled in a low, shallow valley. Ahead of me, I could see long grass swaying in the wind…
Landfall
My eyes ran up and down the Lucas. It was the first time I had seen her in the flesh, never actually getting so much as a glance at her body when she was in…
Eponymous
When I woke up, my head screaming in protest to consciousness and my body slow to respond, I instantly knew what happened. Opening my eyes and rubbing them…
Twenty Five Thousand Feet (repost)
I mash my foot to the floor, and the hum of the engines grows into a full roar. The atmosphere whistles around the small canopy of my Tesla X800 as I push it…
The Boarding, Part I
The Imperial cruiser came up behind the small craft, slowing to match speed. Hailing frequencies were already on, and data transmitted back and forth between…
Lost At Sea
The captain of the ship ran from his corridor. He entered a hallway that was shattered, wood paneling hanging sideways, water leaking from the ground. He ran…
Twenty Five Thousand Feet
I mash my foot to the floor, and the hum of the engines grows into a full roar. The atmosphere whistles around the small canopy of my Tesla X800 as I push it…