A heartbeat later a single pair of orange eyes rose from the darkened depths. Dim at first, then in full brightness of attention they moved up from the floor then glided toward here, drawing closer...

Jen’s emotions, strong but invisible within an infallible Miran facade, raged with contempt. He’d met the man responsible for such despicable exploitation of his brother’s life onboard the Aquarius. He didn’t like him then.He hated...

They passed the point where they’d made their previous retreat, but this time felt no urgency or fear. For some reason the dubious energy field was gone.

Flames of outrage and reprisal had likewise made a comeback, his nearly forgotten, silent heritage no longer hidden by thirty years of compliance. Instead the fire grew, unmitigated by training, logic or reason.

In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil and a preponderance of good, both crying that somehow it was...

Past memories strobed before him, flashes of joy blackened by the present. Reality teased, then beckoned, home likewise. Confusion dimmed, the answer clear. This could end. Would end. In one of two ways. Still he...

Dirck’s mind hadn’t stopped racing since the arrest. Why were the only dreams that came true nightmares?

Dirck’s thoughts wandered to Creena. It was a good thing she wasn’t there or she’d die, too. He shuddered to think of how she’d feel when she got back and everyone was dead. He’d never...

Loneliness struck again, its force doubled by how much she wished it was her family there instead. Then oddly enough, she met the boy’s stare and that feeling came again, that this was her family.

All that shameless groveling. no wonder ‘merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he’d witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would....

I do, ‘Merama,’ Deven piped up. ‘I know exactly what she means. We need to send them love and see them coming home in our mind. If we wish and believe we can be together...

He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion...

Somehow the thought she might be next wasn’t nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.

Dark rumblings inside told him he was in a tremendous amount of trouble. He didn’t know how it was going to manifest or when but it was coming, sure as Zeta would break the horizon...

Matter and energy are equivalent, according to the equation E=mc2, where E stand for energy, m for mass and c for the speed of light,’ ‘Merapa explained. ‘Matter can’t be transported at the speed of...

Red, orange and green geometric designs painted its body as well as the flimsy collar around its neck. The creature flicked its tail and blinked its deep-set eyes, apparently oblivious to their presence.”That’s a yraglian...

The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to...