Two-Five’s Adventure, Part 2

by | Mar 3, 2013 | Uncategorized

      “Hey now, what are you doing here, little guy?”       Two-Five’s inner eyelids snapped down as he turned his back on the grate. Looming over him was a large and hairy male in the uniform of a warrior for Earth...

Two-Five’s Adventure, Part 1

by | Mar 2, 2013 | Uncategorized

Curious about the Kekrax? Here begins the tale of one particularly adventurous specimen of this reptilian race, whose territory abuts Tolari space.       Two-Five of Four-Seven Slash Second scurried down the corridor of the station, tails held...

From the Cutting Room Floor, Part 4

by | Feb 24, 2013 | Uncategorized

As promised, the rest of the original opening to First Contact: Tolar was a patchwork quilt of independent provinces, a pastoral world of technologically-backward people, a pre-industrial culture of scholars and artisans. Earth’s partners in the Trade Alliance had at...

From the Cutting Room Floor, Part 3

by | Feb 23, 2013 | Uncategorized

First Contact, the first of the two stories in Into Tolari Space, didn’t originally start with the words, “And now, the Tolari were calling.” At the suggestion of a member of my critique group, I cut the first almost-600 words and redistributed much...