Alliance

Alliance

The Alliance is a storyworld set in a future-Earth and space colonization setting. Twenty-two star systems are bound together by Kippler’s (a cosmoparticular transdimensional elevator shaft, otherwise known as a wormhole) and the Human Alliance Council.

Science Fiction

All Them Bright Stars

02. The Good Heart - Case 27
Short Story
1088 words

Kade is one of a crewful of scrappy orphans taken in by the captain of The Good Heart, a spaceship barely holding itself together. Anyone would want to leave, right?

Best Friends

03. Elysia - Shel 05
Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words

An unlikely rescuer and a shy little girl...

Five-year-old Shelley Huntington falls prey to the class bully, but meets an unlikely rescuer with startling results.

Since When

03. Elysia - Shel 05
Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words

Truth is not in the eye of the beholder. Is it?

Two schoolgirls share lunch and misgivings at how to apply truth when the facts are not convenient.

Poetry is Fire

04. Kailin University - Shel 16
Flash Fiction Short Story
200 words

Arsonists aren't supposed to be into literature.

Shelley wants a book; so does the local troublemaker.

Scarred

04. Kailin University - Shel 16
Flash Fiction Short Story
100 words

She's not in love. Really.

Hayley isn’t the kind of woman to be in denial, but she’s never liked a problem she doesn’t know how to untangle.

Warning: Mentions abuse.

Square Root

04. Kailin University - Shel 16
Flash Fiction Short Story
316 words

Ten minutes to midnight, and there was a girl in their dorm room.

All Ruego wants is some peaceful undisturbed rest in his own dorm room at Kailin University. Is that too much to ask?

A Traditional Love Poem

Story Within a Story
Poem
24 lines

Violets are blue / as the hue of your eyes, / like pieces of Heaven / come down from the skies