Have you ever noticed how a pencil seems to wiggle and bend as you wave it back and forth? That’s what Liz was noticing. Right at the moment, there was a lull in her class, and with nothing else to do, she had taken to waggling her pencil to pass the time. It was amusing, if only ever-so-slightly so. However, even that amusement soon ran out. With a sigh, Liz turned to gaze out the window. Her eyes roved the courtyard. Nothing, nothing, nothing… and then a sudden flash of purple. Li

Shuddering and groaning, I pulled herself up from the small depression I had curled up in, shaking my head to try to clear the pounding feeling I felt throughout my body. Wincing as nothing seemed to work, I rose up, poking my head over the rows of corn nearby as I heard something in the distance, and suddenly everything made sense. Next to the old barn was a collection of cars, bikes, and other vehicles, along with all of their passengers. Even from this distance I could smell the alcohol on

Walking up to their ship, Xandra had to admit that today had gone rather well. Her and the boss had gone out on the usual rounds collecting their cut from the local shops, and things had gone better than even she had hoped. The noodle stand had tried to bribe them (which meant free lunch), the liquor store had offered them next week’s payment early, and the idiot from the butcher had even tried to shortchange them! She had been wanting to hit him so badly ever since he had given her tha

“Are the latest test subjects ready?”
“Yes doctor, everything is prepared. Should we start?”
“Yes, as soon as the equipment is set up, begin the experiment.”
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Ex-peer-ement. I wasn’t sure what exactly they meant by it, but every time I heard them say that word, they gave me different kinds of food. I wasn’t sure why, and I didn’t know why they didn’t just say ‘food’ or ‘feeding’ like they did other times