"You're that bounty hunter that killed that feller at the Governor's Ball." "I needed that bounty for my kid's teeth." "Nobody here's got bounties on'em." "Who said I was here to h

I don't know how I'll survive those pirates. Here I am three years later keeping the books for the Pirate Fleet. The REAL Pirate books. Once again La Fitte has gotten more booty by

I'll hold my own. For me. If you become me, mine is ours. Yours as well. You won't be that anymore. You will be me. I won't be anything other that I. You can be me. Rinse. Repeat.

There is a hurt in the room with us. I can't tell if it is mine or yours. Juxtapose our positions here in the sun light. You hold your position like an overridden concrete jungle.

There continued to be no funding for the reversal of this procedure and prisoners were being released still in compliant mode with the government having their future actions on the

“Ted,” I said, “ you’ve got to have dreams for me to quash or this relationship is all one sided. I end up on the shitty side of this equation. You know how I hate that, after Io.

How could we ever communicate if the very thought of talking to you was an insult to reason? One doe'nt talk to insects. I see now that my view of your kind was provincial & undue.

Tina's Canteen had been working these asteroid camps for close to 11 Terran years when she sold and bugged out overnight. Last I heard she was in New Rio. The people that took over

I admit I let my guard down. I broke my biggest rule. It was my birthday party. I had an inkling something was wrong but kept it at bay by telling myself it was about the surprise.

I can see that somebody is sitting on the 4th chair at our table. I just can't see who it is. It could be a she. Lets assume it is a she. She is only maybe at most 5 feet from me.

It is with a curious eye only that I take upon myself the duty of relating to you as matters sit at this sitdown. The head of the table is empty, for now. The others at the table?

When still Queen of Mars, EJ Camacho of Space Patrol, had instituted an integrated educational system. Indigenous Martians had to learn human history & the humans had to learn the

One time I had to explain Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to my Martian roommate. "Remember when I got here, none of you wanted me to play in any of your Martian games?" "Your nose

Citizens are reporting data drops all over the region. Planetary Control adamant that it is not the Martian Attack. "One of these times that one is going to be a lie."

All the fucks are floating in the bloody water. No posterior stood out. Manatee had to send his sea monkeys in to sort it out. Meanwhile he questioned their only witness, Drake Owl

I doubt that I don't exist. Who is the doubter? Who is the doubt? Lets all get together and work this out.

Everybody had doubts. Even Omar Peck, had doubts. Of his Non-Existence.

That was one of the ways that Omar Peck was different. He never had to entertain those thoughts because he never invited them in. Why that was was just another mystery about him.

Sideways is a side we don't always remember is there. It's always over there on the side as an option that we take pains to avoid. We don't like things going sideways. Well, most

"Yes, I practice ranjarat. I'm quite good with the grandmothers, if you know what I mean." I didn't need to hear this from my thirteen year old son. Not today. I smacked his hat on