Kingsford's War

“…straightforward. Lieutenant Wexler has been recalled to Hokkaido for personal matters, and while Captain Barrett remains in-system, she won’t reach Shiro for at least ten days, possibly longer. Until then, she has placed me in charge of the department… [See More on Patreon]

The run-in with Wexler was enough to push Innes to go to Sage’s lab. He needed something to take his mind off the lieutenant’s threats. It had only been a few weeks since graduation, and he’d already started seeing that the high ideals and honor he’d looked for in the Navy were perhaps not all […]

Innes was already looking across the tables pushed up next to the curved viewport as he walked into the observation lounges, looking for a particular head of black hair. He’d stopped by the lounge twice in the last four days, timing his visits to match when he’d first encountered Sage, and each time the only […]

An hour and a half later, the sheriff’s station looked like a federal crime scene, which it was. Taylor sat on the front steps of the courthouse, fifty feet from the station entrance. Yellow tape stretched across the front door of the station, and portable floodlights had been set up… [See More on Patreon]

Crewman Lind’s fingers moved across her console as she logged dozens of docking requests that had come in as their shift took over. Innes watched the new entry populate the traffic display without particular interest. This was their sixth day on station, and it had become almost routine… [See More on Patreon]

Innes found a seat in the tactical compartment, his chair close enough to the console that his knees brushed the underside of the panel if he moved. Four consoles wrapped the little space. He had the center console, which gave him a view of the large monitor on the… [See More on Patreon]