Category: Short Stories

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 20: Terms of Surrender

November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

“We can make it,” growled the Lotorian pilot as he clenched his teeth, using the nav controls to juke and weave the freighter through the tumbling rocks on the edge of disaster in Rigor Strand. His companion and partner, a Llivori with a dark leather patch over his right eye, shook his snout and grumbled….

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

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 21: Redundancy

November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

The anomalous data arrived during the third day of the second week of the first month, in the thirty-first second of the nineteenth minute of the eighth hour. It was 18 degrees Celsius outside. Toxic rain poured from menacing black and blue clouds overhead. The Overmind felt that the grim weather suited its mood in…

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

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 22: In the Dark

November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 Brody No Comments

It had been dark for so long, he couldn’t quite remember what light looked like. Lost, these past years, between realities. He’d held the stone in his hand on that platform overlooking the desolate plains of the windy planet Fracture. All he had to do was clutch it, absorb its power, and he would throw…

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

31 Days of OtherSpace No. 23: Fallen Friend

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For decades, the four had always been one. Now, though, as the stars glittered in the darkening sky above the Stubtooth Mountains, change came to Akalpatra on the sand-gritted breeze. The Theorian pack member known as Tra lay on the ground in the middle of a rough circle formed by his three companions – Ak,…

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