Every week Siobhan Muir runs #ThursThreads – a Flash fiction contest that runs from 7 AM Time to 8 PM Mountain Time. The prompt is chosen from a line from the previous week’s winning tale, and you must include the prompt in the story – you cannot change the tense and the only thing you […]
Read More This week’s Thursday’s Threads entryApril 16th, 2552 Out to get me Hitter of Heavy bags/Schroedinger’s Clay Pigeon/ part-time Tech – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Well, either they’re trying to kill me or just gaslight me. Either way will work at this point. I do a lot of dangerous work these days, hell, living on the Twilight of the Gods […]
Read More 107-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 14th, 2552 Accidental Acts of Sabotage Hitter of Heavy bags/Schroedinger’s Clay Pigeon/ part-time Tech – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting When things happen, they happen fast. When I got out of the shower, Tower was waiting for me. He had me translate my notes since I’d encrypted them and he was only so-so with translating […]
Read More 105-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 8th, 2552 Under Orders Tow Truck Driver/Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So, now that we’re all part of the fleet again we’re all under orders to not talk about what we’ve learned on the Twilight of the Gods. But if you don’t know anything and you’re not supposed to talk about what […]
Read More 99-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 5th, 2552 Isolation Voice of reason/Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I really don’t know what the brass is thinking. It’s bad enough the 5.7 is on the Twilight of the Gods but now all the scientists, technicians and mechanics who are reverse engineering her are now all nicely stationed on the ship […]
Read More 96-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 31st, 2552 Limbo Tow Truck Driver/Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting This is what hell feels like. The only thing worse than arguing bureaucratic red tape with the brass is arguing scientific paradox theories with a bunch of engineers and scientists, and I’ve got both. All I want to do is do my […]
Read More 91-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 29th, 2552 Findings Tow Truck Driver/metallurgist’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So, after all the cloak and dagger work they decided that it was time to hold a briefing and go over their findings, not with the fleet, not just with the mechanics, and God forbid they talk to me— no, they reported […]
Read More 89-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 26th, 2552 Age vs Beauty Tow Truck Driver/Gumbo Cook and caretaker/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I’m not allowed to touch the new ship— they don’t even want her in the same compartment as My Gumbo. Aside from yesterday’s walkthrough— I haven’t gotten to see the ship, I can’t put her through her paces […]
Read More 86–Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 24th, 2552 Almost but not quite under wraps Tow Truck Driver/Usual Suspect/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting The top-secret package arrived today – Wrapped in the plastics we were taught to wrap artifacts in, only it was wrapped so tightly, no one could tell what we were looking at, which I think was […]
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