As some of you know, I have an ongoing love for FlashFiction aka Fiction you can read in a flash – I’ve written some that are as short as a tweet, and some up to 500 words. In the world of FlashFiction contests – It’s not just writing, it’s a puzzle, it’s trying to tell […]
Read More Indiglow – Written for ThursThreads – 9th Anniversary EditionAugust 2nd, 2552 – A Policy of Avoidance Pilot/Witness and sometimes Target Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Since we will never really convince factions within the Parataph that we did not instigate the events that resulted in the total animation of their peoples. That’s the great thing about conspiracies any disproof is just a part of […]
Read More 215-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 2nd, 2552 I win? Yay me? Guinea Pig/ Part-time mechanic/Canary in search of a coal mine, Kat James Reporting It took several iterations of ‘The Gumbo is the only ship equipped for jump point travel’ before the brass accepted that the Gumbo was the ship that would have to go and find out what […]
Read More 154-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 6th, 2552 Inconclusive conclusions Tow Truck Driver/Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting There are things that don’t add up. I mean more than the obvious Doppelgänger Gumbo with all her, the autopsy report on the older deader me and the fact that it has all my old injuries and a lot more from […]
Read More 97-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 4th, 2552 Trust Tow Truck Driver/Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I’m beginning to think my desirability is based on the phase of the moon – today I was ushered away from the 5.7 as the process of taking it apart revealed something. Thing is, when they took apart my ship, my version […]
Read More 95-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 28th, 2552 Stress points Tow Truck Driver/metallurgist’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Tower and Fipps have been doing their best to keep me occupied and out of the way, but by midday, they’d had to call for re-enforcements. Cookie tried being reasonable and when that didn’t work Mac went straight to the facts. […]
Read More 88-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 23rd, 2552 There’s an Acronym for that Tow Truck Driver/Usual Suspect/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Well, the squad did not return with the find, but two pilots did, looking for extra grapples and repairs to their ships where the grapples failed. I should have been allowed to work on it. I’m qualified […]
Read More 83-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 21st, 2552 Mixed Signals Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting The other half of the squadron returned, still no one from the Valkyrie, but all the support staff has been brought to the Twilight. If I was hoping for an answer, I was wrong, and it was obvious that some […]
Read More 81-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 18th, 2552 Nobody knows nothing Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Another day and no signs of ships from Dancer’s Retreat, and we were forced to watch as a squadron of fighters from the Edda headed out to find out what was going on. Six hours for them, two days […]
Read More 78-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 13th, 2552 “Live Feed” Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Today was a tad surreal. We were treated to the ‘live feed’ from Dancer’s landing, at least that’s what they called it for the non-astrophysicists in the fleet. Everyone was talking about Dancer’s Retreat – the new name for VV […]
Read More 73-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars