Ad Astra Noctis Part 2

Bering

Zephyrantes 1337, Anno Astra 1002/5/3 0732

Glenn glanced at his watch as he waited with Robinson.  Three minutes felt like an eternity in this cold. "I really wish these assholes had waited until I'd eaten my food.  First real meal since leaving the starport over Vivian and I get kidnapped."

 

Ad Astra Noctis Part 1

Bering

Zephyrantes 1337, Anno Astra 1002/5/3 0310

Glenn stretched, finally free of starport customs with his luggage claimed.  He'd been told that interstellar travel was like the trams and trains back home on Cluster 1; an interminable wait but that it goes by quickly.  Since his new employers had paid for his passage, he'd taken the stellar gate from Cluster 1 to Finster, shaving months off his travel time.  Skipping across 114 light years and most of the sector in an instant was miraculous to him.  But the journey from there had been a month-long affair from Finster to Vivian to Bering.  The novelty of red-shifted and blue-shifted stars out the windows had vanished after the first week out towards Vivian; he'd pulled the window blind down after.

Army of Your Dreams: The Empyreal Hunters

Since Games Workshop's Army of Your Dreams competition is closed for new entries, I thought I'd share what I entered.  Remember that this is just 500 words.

Fiat Lux

A considerable alteration of my entry to the Win A Titan contest.  (No, I did not win anything. After seeing the entries that did, I understand why.  Every one of the winning entries was far superior to what I'd entered.) Plus I've been reading the Beast Arises series, and feel the story is more appropriate there.  Additionally, I'm not limited to just four hundred words!

Memory of Starlight: Valkyrie Zero (Part 1)

(I never did finish this whole story. Maybe I'll work on it more. -D)

Memory of Starlight: Near To The Darkness

(Originally thought of as a kind of ghost story.  And a literal deus ex machina. -D)

Memory of Starlight: Marooned

(For longer stories being ported over to the condensed blog, I've edited them together whenever they're complete. -D)

Memory of Starlight: Memories of Summer Nights

(So I thought I'd try to regularly post fiction to a new blog and see how people respond.  I will try to update it with new entries every Sunday.  First we have a kind of introductory story. -D)