Ejoq and company, hurt by an attack, and fearing another, flee the highdock with all haste. Has the raider escaped? Does it know that its sworn enemies are near? If so, why hasn't it finished them off yet?

The thrilling first half of an epic tale of war and revenge concludes!

Look for All He Surveys: Volume 02, beginning in Summer 2024!

Opal City Station is a medium size ring-shaped space colony in  the Alliance. Though there's nothing all that special about it, OCS is  home to hard workers, layabouts, dreamers, lowlifes, villains, and  heroes. Just regular people, living a life in outer space.

Niku is a teenager boy with an eye for the ladies. When he finally sees one that makes his heart stop, he learns a quick lesson about what it means to really want something, and what it sometimes takes to be worthy of it.

A Stardrifter Short-Short Story

Opal City Station is a medium size ring-shaped space colony in the Alliance. Though there's nothing all that special about it, OCS is home to hard workers, layabouts, dreamers, lowlifes, villains, and heroes. Just regular people,  living a life in outer space.

Sanderson Simm races space drones in a highly competitive amateur league. He's been an avid member of his community for years, but has yet to claim his place among the best. Today will be different. Today Sanderson Simm will do anything, including break the law, to gain First Place, and be recognized for who he is. Today is the day he wins!

A quick tale, told in be-bop prose poetry style.

(This is a revised version of the chapter, fixing some audio issues. Sorry for that!)

(Sorry, folks! Got this one mixed up with Chapter 12. And since I inadvertently published 12 in this chapter's place the other day, I guess I may as well go ahead and publish 12 as well; this time where it's supposed to be.)

Check out this episode of Voice From The Void, and find out!

Zimon lives rough, near the outer hull of a space colony, and far from the general population. No real home, no real comfort; for him and his companions, hope, prospects, and dignity are rare and fleeting.

But a young stranger who enters their midst shatters the quiet desperation of Zimon's endless night, and very quickly, the pain and suffering of a lifetime rises to the surface, and a dark lesson is taught, in the Playground.

Stuck in a rut, Lacey works on her family starship, ferrying cargo and passengers to long-familiar ports. A strange passenger offers her a bit of perspective, though, about her life, herself, and even her future. A quiet tale about finding satisfaction and comfort in the cold depths of space.

A wealthy young man gets kidnapped, but is he truly the victim? What is real and what is presumption? And how will a harrowing night prove to be the key to a woman's freedom? A tale about hope, fear, and the politics of love.

Stalked by a military hunter/killer pack in a remote Corporatespace star system, their tiny ship, A Daydream of Josephina, must find it's way back to the Alliance. A simple data grab would never warrant such a desperate response, but here it is anyway.

Something isn't right, and Evany has to figure it out before Corporate Team soldiers get them all in their sites!

Injuries! Unannounced schedule changes! Regulations so new no one has even heard of them! And an AI with a very big digital chip on his shoulder!

And some are just plain jerks.

A manufacturing error at a massive automated factory sends the crew of the small personnel boat, Sheila, rocketing out after a robotic cargo vessel, hoping to stop it before its load of faulty mechanical parts gets shipped out. The company will be on the hook if they can't catch it. It's a liability nightmare!

Oh, and if any people use those parts? They might, you know, die.

Ejoq tries to put his life back together -- but between mysterious visitors, damaged friendships, and disturbing memories, can he even survive survival?

A sixteen year old girl, living on a space station with her aunt and uncle, finds herself at the crossroads of her life. A coming-of-age tale, set among the stars.

The story concludes with friends who might be enemies, and enemies who are definitely enemies. Everything is what it looks like, which means nothing is what it seems!

The crew faces unknown odds, and the middle of nowhere is starting to get crowded. They have just one chance to save a strangely quiet merchant ship...and only half-a-chance to save themselves!

A crew of oddballs assigned to picket duty in a remote star system find their junker of a gunboat falling apart at the seams. Between bad pay, an idiot captain, and some rapidly-failing equipment, things couldn't possibly get worse. Right?