No Space for Family [Chapter 4] Grandma took some time to get used to things. The first morning, a knock came to the door of my brother’s room. That’s the one I was sharing with him in case you forgot. Terren got himself up and opened the door. Beyond the blinding light was Grandma, allContinue reading “A Watched Pot”
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A New Trick or Two
No Space for Family [Chapter 3] Consider space— like, outer space, for you people that live on a planet. Consider that there is more nothing than there is something. Does that make sense? Like there are stars and planets and asteroids and other little celestial bodies, but the rest of that is literally nothing. AndContinue reading “A New Trick or Two”
Step Mother Board
No Space for Family [Chapter 2] I could have gotten out of there if I tried. My brother’s and my rooms used to be secure storage areas back when the Ora was a regular freighter. They were rooms where valuable or fragile cargo was stored away and protected. That way, if someone boarded the shipContinue reading “Step Mother Board”
An Old Dog
No Space for Family [Chapter 1] “Go to your room,” my dad directed, turning back to face me waiting in the corridor. Normally, I would have just hung my hands down by my lap and made a sad face back at him. That would have been enough for him to shrug or roll his eyesContinue reading “An Old Dog”
Same as it Ever Was
If It Were Only A Dragon [Chapter 29 – Final] That mysterious Shanks fellow, who had traveled and fought with us up until the end, may have been someone other than many of us thought. For his deeds, though, I decided to forgive him. Well, it was slow going, but over the several days ofContinue reading “Same as it Ever Was”