Five-thousand years before Naš Linkuts, the Nimry, clad in shining robes, opened the Cold Sea and lifted Inari from its depths...

When Solia was still about a half-mile away, a figure emerged, and hugging the rock wall, she took another look through her binoculars. There he was, the bastard, the coward Little Jake himself...

Safely out of the planet’s atmosphere, Margot let off the throttle and turned on autopilot. Outside her viewport on the starboard side of the ship, she could see the transport security shuttle following close behind...

My feelings of panic have subsided and I have calmed down somewhat. Perhaps now I can give a more accurate description of my crash...

The old locust tree loomed over him, reaching high into the barren indigo sky, a towering ‘V’ at the end of the clearing. Its pale leaves rustled gently and rhythmically, as if the great beast was waiting for him and the night’s hot breath was its own...

Restless, Roberta E. Knick pressed her forehead against the little airplane window. Between periodic red flashes on the wing she could spy the twinkling, fluorescent stars...

He walked down the street with resounding footsteps, completely alone, for it was still early, and no one else was about. The sun had not even risen over the Eastern Mountains, and its light could barely be seen through the clouds in the lower part of the sky...