Indiglow – Written for ThursThreads – 9th Anniversary Edition

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 […]

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A Year Among the Stars – Allegory

I’m attending a writer’s retreat this weekend and one of the exercises for overcoming writer’s block was to look at a picture and put an element from the picture into your story – you don’t need to include it – but I think I’ll keep it…  My picture prompt was a kitten… and this was […]

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341-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

December 6th, 2552 – Survival training Escape Pilot Kat James Reporting Way back when I’d volunteered for the Vision Project, my fellow convicts and were assigned to an abbreviated training program based on the work we’d be expected to do. We learned to march and run, mostly because it tired us out and made us […]

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340-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

December 5th, 2552 – Planetfall Escape Pilot Kat James Reporting It seems the fleet has picked up a few more races as we escaped the games the Lasatiea were playing with the Others and the Void Walkers. Turns out both of them have been playing this game for as long as the other races can […]

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265-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

September 21st, 2552 – Trojan Tech Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Fortunately, Fipps’ people are paranoid enough that they were studying the files they’d downloaded on a closed system with nothing but the files and the utilities they needed to analyze what they were looking at — something I’m going to […]

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263-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

September 19th, 2552 – Survival Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I think we were all in shock. 7 skiffs, full medical staff, or scavenging teams— just a field of debris. I knew I should high tail it, but where? There were more of us on board that we had supplies and […]

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242-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 29th, 2552 – Proceeding with Caution Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt in training Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting The exploration team deployed this morning, with me waiting in the wings just in case I was needed. Sitting just outside the planet’s atmosphere I had a lot of time, and very little to do, other than the usual, keep […]

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126-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

May 5th, 2552 Random Encounter Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting I have to admit, I felt a lot better having something we could use to detect our visitors, and Fipps was actually able to use my recording and the information he got from his sensors to develop something that would, he hoped, […]

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120-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

April 29th, 2552 Landing on Theoretical Impossibilities Exploration Team /Pilot of Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So, my first official day of working with the Exploration Team and what am I doing? Designing better landing gear for landing on unknown surfaces. See, this is where simulators fail. You can program the most complex […]

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