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Old Friends
Ok, This is...different. It ambushed me. I can't explain why it came and invaded my brains, it just did. I like it, but it's a mostly serious, somewhat saddish, somewhat realistic far-future view of three loved characters who've just made some really obvious, dumb mistakes in their lives between now and then. The upside is that it's got a hopeful, ( Read more... ) -
Diplomatic Triangulation, Chapter 4
IV
It was, to Gil’s amazement, Tarvek who saved the moment…though he later admitted to himself he should have expected the wily prince to find a way to pour oil on the heaving ocean of turmoil about to crash over them. Sturmvoraus somehow managed to disengage from Gil, give a complicated shrug that pulled the too-large shirt into at least a ( Read more... ) -
Diplomatic Triangulation, Chapter 3
III
Gil woke to the profoundly unwelcome sound of Tarvek throwing up in the compartment wastepaper basket. Hearing, his eyes snapped open and he stared at the ceiling in patent horror.
“Sturmvoraus?”
There was a frenzied scuttling as Tarvek scrambled for cover. His tense, hyper-controlled voice said, “Where am I?”
Gil was a doctor, and as a doctor he ( Read more... ) -
Diplomatic Triangulation 2
II
The room came to a complete standstill. Even those who had not recognized the now- famous-or notorious-young men still recognized the frizzling energy in the voices of sparks fast heading for the Madness Place. The few other customers tossed cash onto tables and departed at speed, leaving half-eaten meals and, in a few instances, damp seats ( Read more... ) -
Diplomatic Triangulation
Gil watched in glee as a little Nepenthe dulcis seedling slithered its way up Tarvek’s leg, nuzzling eagerly at the Prince’s crotch. It was all he could do not to whoop with laughter as Tarvek staggered, squeaked giddily, and pettishly shoved it away, giggling.
“Oh, go away, you nasty thing! For shame!” Sturmvoraus grumbled, cheerfully, voice ( Read more... ) -
Binary
Gil
He couldn’t help wondering if this was how his father felt all the time.
The fury and frustration that everyone around him made things so hard; the conviction that if they would only shut up and do what he suggested life would be better for everyone; the outright rage that so many refused to believe he could destroy them if that’s what it took.
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