Cade steadied his horse with a squeeze of both knees, keeping her dancing legs in check and protecting the dusty mounds below from wayward hooves. The four lines of raised dirt sheltered the still-warm bodies of his dead friends. The new mount had a sure spirit, along with an insatiable lust for speed, but she … Read more
There’s a baby in the back of the glider, but it’s not mine. Sure, she looks like my baby, but my baby never cries when we’re cruising through the Kuiper belt. Quite the opposite. Cruising through the solar system’s outer reaches is sometimes the only way I can get her to fall asleep. But … Read more
This story contains sensitive content CW: Mental health, violence, war The soldiers file into the mess hall, squeezing onto benches and finding open places away from the canvas walls to sit. Outside, the wind shrieks, whipping and beating tarps throughout the whole encampment, in some places tearing them from their posts. Calling it a mess … Read more