• Sister Reduced, part 5

    After their meeting, Biralee’s new ‘sisters’ seemed in little rush to integrate her into the larger group – she had her own life. There was some correspondence – feeling a bit lake occasionally catching up with a long lost friend by email – and a wave of recognition at the University – but everyone kept… Continue reading

  • Sister Reduced, part 4

    “Do you want me to call you clever?” “Why, do I deserve it?” “You make me into four people to avoid the triplets’ ire. And then you fail to name one of them.” “I was thinking Bishwas.” “Too generic. Try again.” “I think Usha is too generic.” “Is it, Aishwarya, is it?” “I’m Biralee.” Mouri’s… Continue reading

  • Sister Reduced, part 3

    “So. That’s your solution to my ‘Man Problem’, as Ma puts it?” “It’s one solution.” A pothole in the the road almost made Virika drop her phone. “I’m shaking my head. Do you believe that?” “I’m just saying that if out parents believed in arranged marriages, neither of us would be where we are right… Continue reading

  • Sister Reduced, part 2

    “Wait. So am I a shapeshifter? Or stretchy?” “Yes. And apparently you’re supposed to call it ‘elastic’. The contortionists AND the Elastic fans get mad if you don’t.” “Get mad where?” “The internet.” “That’s where people go to get mad anyways.” “They can be mad at other people. And devour my content without a word… Continue reading

  • 11: Limit Testing (2/3)

    Also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/47065192/chapters/121100356 Sombra squatted over Mei. “What are dolls like in China? Do you load up your little niños on the same pink plastic things you sell to foreigners?” Sombra started to straighten Mei out, pulling her crumpled mess into order, back on the floor. “Little fragile things – so easy to break, parents… Continue reading

  • Ouinhed Species Notes

    The Ouinhed species has been primarily diasporic for somewhere around a million years. At the very beginning of this period, the species settled in a solar system around a red giant had maybe a thousand year spree of cylinder building – pointing the vessels in various directions and accelerating them with first stellar laser, then… Continue reading

  • N’Mob Species Notes

    The n’mob are decended from a dolphin-like species. Their eyes are retro-reflective. Their skin is fairly insulated, this has is believed to be the reason for their cooling suit, allowing for much enhanced productivity. The are considered to be the closest local species to humans. Bipedal, upright, only two more limbs. Internally, the torso could… Continue reading

  • The N’Mob Lost Settlement

    Before the Ouinhed landing on the first planet of the N’Mob system, there were the beginnings of one major settlement, populated by a few hundred individuals. There was some agriculture established – not enough for self-support quite yet, as the settlement was still primarily for research; it was considered no where near a point of… Continue reading

  • Sister Reduced, part 1

    “You have to change names. I can be a secretary, but nothing else can match.” Usha replied to her sister. “So, like, nothing about the triplets?” Virika with her outlet of writing, had borrowed her sister’s likeness before. But asking for something in a more ‘real’ setting had to have limits, especially with the verification… Continue reading

  • 10: Limit Testing (1/3)

    Also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/47065192/chapters/119711608 It wasn’t hard to get out of the Orca. It’s model was considered vintage – Sombra could play it’s systems far more easily than a fiddle. It didn’t hold much worth examinging, one she’d gotten some food and water in her stomach – some. Not too much. The base outside had more… Continue reading