He brushed at her Commanders uniform removing any bits of lint. “You got this. Stop worrying. Take a breath.” “Oh, not knowing what they are going to ask is driving me nuts.” He turned her from the mirror, checked her collar, and shoulder boards. He paused over one board and…

After the metered success at the Atoll, the small damaged fleet of allied ships limped back to Donavan’s Needle, where the wounded were attended and the ships repaired to make them shift worthy. One late afternoon when everyone was exhausted, the captain called a halt to all repairs. Over the…

As a disclaimer, The references to the characters and races of C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien are only in honor for the part that their works play in my life. Call it FanFic if you wish. This bit of writing has been collecting dust since 1978 or 79. Yes it…

The gun fire grew closer and the smoke thinned. A muzzle flash stopped him and he dropped behind a crate of cargo. A slug plunked off the deck close to him. He pointed his large black pistol at the shadowy silhouette’s center and squeezed the trigger. The big iron boomed…

“Lieutenant, all stop.” Kantuck pulled the E.O.T. to full stop, a short and long bell rang in response, and the ship glided into thinner foam. She turned and looked at her captain as it was he that had called for the stop. “Off our port forward quarter is a triple…

Down in the well of the Alice Queen the deck under paw pitched hard and Sandwolf grabbed for a hand hold. A deep resounding boom echoed throughout the hull as something struck the ship or maybe the ship struck something. “What in the six bells of Valla are they doing…

Kantuck leaned up against a large black boulder, watching the crew of the Alice and crew from seven other ships. The captains from all eight ships stood aside with two locals. One was human in appearance while the other seemed to be a Dream morph or a hybrid feline, much…

The white bengal tiger sat in his captain’s chair and the Lieutenant Anikawi doe stood to his side. The ship pitched and rolled as it turned to port or starboard to slide by rocky spires that jutted up through the dense foam of the aether. As far as the eye…

“Lieutenant?” “Yes, Ensign Pender.” The badger turned in her seat to face the Anikawi doe. “I keep getting shadows on the scope. At first I thought maybe they were the graughtogama deep in the aether, but now… I’m not so sure.” The doe lieutenant looked out the forward windows and…