space - Stories

Mickey Ryder is twenty-three, deeply in debt, and the captain of a barely-functioning mail ship held together by salvage tape and bad decisions. When a runaway cult boy named Isaiah hides in his cargo bay, Mickey does the one thing he never does—he says yes. Now they're running from New Eden, hauling mystery cargo, and trying not to kill each other. But between a dead exploration ship, a screaming alien in a crate, and a religious mandate that just dropped a nine-year-old son on his doorstep, Mickey's about to learn that surviving is easy. Living? That's the hard part.

This is a collection of scenes, very shorts, and doodles in the Sci-Fi space.

The Toxic Trash Panda is a garbage scow of chaotic himbos. Kael (Fabulous), Jax (Muscle), River (Nerd), and Zane (Brooding) are broke, vain, and co-dependent. On Christmas Eve in Neo-Kowloon Orbital, they intercept the Silent Night—a corporate prison ship ferrying orphans to a life of forced caroling. Outraged by the beige uniforms and the sheer lack of festive flair, these four disasters suit up in tactical glitter to stage the galaxy’s most stylish prison break. It’s a festive, chaotic space opera about found family, fighting capitalism, and looking absolutely flawless while doing it.

In the final tale of Zafiro, he is trapped with voices controlling his head. A familiar face joins him in the Icebox and his mother is doing all she can to help her child.

Meanwhile, a new enemy is sneaking about the shadows that is threatening what remaining family he has left on earth!

A trip that puts you on a collision course with the one who is to be your mate as prophesied in your dreams. Warnings of the coming war that you have been secretly told you'll need to stop. An invasion force masquerading as pirates. Combine the three and an empire is born. Mark Alexander's destiny awaits.

Book 4 of the Westward Confederation Series

Prompt 263: First line: "It's behind me, isn't it."

Centaurus 4 is the latest mission to Proxima Centauri b. Three attempts to reach the distant planet were unmanned. The main reason for that was that Proxima Centauri b (PC-b) is 4.22 light-years (1.3 parsecs) from Earth. Recent advancements in space travel have reduced the travel time to 153 days at ten times light speed. The story takes place roughly two hundred years in our future.

Centaurus 4 has a crew of 16. The first three members of the crew have recently exited the ship and started their survey of the immediate area. What they experience is shocking, to say the least.

Even far from old Earth it's Valentine's Day.

Wanna be my Valentinerian?

Book 3 of the Westward Confederation Series: Follow Marc Alexander as he finishes Officer Candidate School. Meets a person with a clue to his destiny as he navigates his future as part of Alexander Industries out on the frontiers of Confederation space.

This is my first attempt at writing a story that is no gay or straight. There are people in it that are both. It is set in the future, but once you begin to read it what year it is won't matter.

Two for One

Book 2 The continuing story of Marc Alexander and friends as he navigates life in the family corporation, training, politics, lovers, mining, meetings and pirates. Helping people along the way as he starts his fledgling mining company. More problems than answers that can be easily attained.