Category: Short Stories

A Simple Question

November 3, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

“Where is it?” The pasty-skinned Light Singer sounded friendly enough as he loomed over the grayish-brown furred Lotorian chained against the rough stone column. Nothing friendly about that crimson aura, though. Or the eyes. Cold. Icy blue, like the frozen B’hira wastes. Zoznazz tried avoiding the eyes, staring toward the broad maw of the planetoid’s…

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 1: Seeking Supremacy

November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

Shafts of sunlight poured through colorful plasma fields, creating a kaleidescopic dance of dust motes in the Great Temple of Ope’mot as the Aukami rose from his seat at the table to speak. “Our resources are depleted, even more so than yours,” Vynos Evanel said, eyes swirling blue and violet as he placed long slender…

Fiction, MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OS Lore, OtherSpace, Short Stories

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 2: Coercion

November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

Again with the light. This time, though, with the splintered stick in the ear. That’s a new one today, he thought. He didn’t say it, however. No, he was too busy screaming. Eventually, the sharp pain ebbed into an aching throb. “Did you act alone?” The deep-voiced Hekayti interrogator, a close companion these past few…

Fiction, MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OS Lore, OtherSpace, Short Stories

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 3: Years

November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

The years did not used to matter at all. In her youth, Comorro had hung low above the sun-smeared horizon of Lotor in a distant age when that planet still had a sky and remained intact. Back then, the most advanced inhabitants of that world swung by their tails from tree to tree, chewing on…

Fiction, MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OS Lore, OtherSpace, Short Stories