Stories tagged “spaceships”

  • The Start of Something

    Have you ever tried to land an aircar in the rain? It’s not easy to begin with, managing the updrafts and all, but the wind and the water just make it that much harder. I was doing a damned fine job of it though, carefully twitching the thrusters...

  • In the Middle of Everything

    I grimaced. “What for?” Zeke shrugged, throwing up his hands in a futile gesture. “Beats me. I’m just the messenger.” He patted me on the shoulder twice companionably, and chuckled when I shrugged his hand off. “I...

    • Author: Ana Anderson
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Good for Nothing

    “I am not on drugs,” I said as I stormed into my boss’s office. “And if this is about that landing, first, it didn’t damage the aircar — I checked - and second, it wasn’t my fault anyway. Some idiot nudged me -...

  • Derelict

    The ship was dead on the outskirts of the Sparkler nebula, a lone, hulking metal wreck. Holes coated the hull, likely the result of a run-in with a Tausian War Bird and its Mass Shifter Cannons. The G.E.C. Odysseus sidled up next to the derelict. Vale ...

  • A Bad Time for Anything

    “Don’t drink it,” I responded, waving my hand dismissively. “That’s a shame,” Smith said, then gestured at a chair. “Before I start, you might want to sit down.” I looked suspiciously at him. “̷...

  • Out of Things

    “Need I remind you,” I sputtered uselessly, “that I am a taxi driver? I fly aircars. I don’t do extractions, I don’t do intelligence, and mostly I don’t do Underlevel.” Underlevel was thirty miles deep at its d...