Scene 13 – Epilogue * * *   “An Epilogue?” Jonas asked. The last page of the newly-printed copy of the script was blank.  He took it back from Riel and stared at it anyway. “I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t think it needs one anymore. I’ll take that off the table of contents.” He [...]

Scene 12 – The Throne Room A naked Daniel stumbles out onto the floor of the Snatch‘s seldom-used Imperial throne room. He is pristine, undamaged. There are no hickeys, no trails of crusted blood.   Like Lady Vain’s personal deck and the canyon hollow of the White Thighs, the throne room is vast. Rows of [...]

Scene 11 – Aboard the Snatch Two White Thighs fall to the ground, dead. Bella’s whip retracts into its handle, which she hides again in the tool belt of the People Eater armor she’s wearing. “All too easy,” she murmurs as she slips into the empty auxiliary room and slides in front of a computer [...]

Scene 10 – Enduron Since leaving Tittitueene, Daniel has been transformed into a brawny sex god. Dark hair curls behind his ears and mottles his chest and arms. He wears only a tunic skirt tied around his waist – when the women leave him even that. That each woman lusts for him in her own [...]

Scene 9 – Tight Quarters Down in the guts of the ship, where foam-wrapped pipes twist through clear-lacquered equipment with inconvenient geometries, where the heart of the ship thrums slowly, Daniel is wedged into a very narrow corridor, one arm thrust into an open panel past his shoulder. His head is half-hidden, and he grunts [...]

Scene 8 – The Beaver Damned Daniel is sleeping for once – more than just a half-hour nap, and Bella is beginning to drift off as her fingers stroke his head in her lap, tangling through his hair, when the ship is shaken by a loud BANG and lurches. Daniel’s eyes open wide in time [...]

Scene 7 – Aboard The Hungry Beaver Bella and Daniel stand before the floor-to-ceiling viewing panel on a dingy, well deep-space ship, staring at the disk of a rapidly-shrinking yellow planet. Suddenly the stars smear and shift, and the planet becomes a blob of modern art that boils away to a dot, then nothing. Lola [...]

Scene 6 – Out of the Frying pan, into the Grease Trap Bella is thrown roughly onto a dirty table in a side room, where the People Eater sergeant tears open her robe. Her black-gloved fingers jitter as they trace up the bare, tattooed curves of Bella’s belly. “We’ll see how skilled you are at [...]

Scene 5 – The Titti Clamp The long black robes of the desert tribes whip around two figures standing on a sandstone wall. Beyond them is Hollowhead, Tittitueene’s primary city and spaceport. Their robes are hemmed in silver and rhinestones and covered in traditional thread-of-gold embroidery. The robes, like burqas, cover all but their eyes, [...]

Scene 4 – The Positions Bella’s cave home is dark; the green glow from the beamships moves slowly through the gaps between the windows. Sounds of sex echo through the plaster ceiling domes from another room. Bella is in her bedroom, and she’s nude. She rocks slowly and moans through nibbled lips. As she pinches [...]

Scene 3 – The Man-eaters Eaten The seasons have turned, and the yellow-brown desert is dusted with snow. The white sun is eclipsed by the yellow, and the days are shorter.   And then a doppled shadow passes over the desert as the yellow sun is eclipsed as well – a flotilla of greatships drifts [...]

Scene 2 – Bella Ben-wa’s Dark Hole Late morning sunlight filters in through the skylight and glassed-over natural windows of the cave home. Beams of light shoot through clouds of slowly-twirling twirling dust motes. The walls and pillars of the cave have been smoothed and rubbed to a polish through many years of use; where [...]

Scene 1 – Maneater Gulch The morning suns casts long, doubled shadows across the desert, painting the rock formations in overlapping orange and purple. Buttes and pillars and wind-blown arches break up the landscape. The stillness recedes like a falling tide from the sounds of a struggle, sounds of libidinous moaning, snarls and hisses. They [...]

  A long time from now in a galaxy much like our own… Jack Riel sank back into the deep, creamy leather loveseat in Jonas’ office. He flipped over the dog-eared manuscript in his hands. “You can’t be serious. An opening crawl?” Jonas stood in the alcove of his office’s bay windows, the sunlight splashing [...]

Fury She called it upon herself. 11:18pm, Thursday the 3rd. Four miles outside the city line on N. Charles Road. Subject’s residence. The woods had provided ample coverage for unnoticed surveillance of the estate. Only two guards remained on the premises – one at the gate, one in the manor. She had left at nightfall, [...]

Nyx I don’t know what it was that finally pushed me over that precarious edge, what made me decide the time had come. I had pondered it for some time – years, in fact – but I never had the courage to do violence to my own body. The pain in my heart and soul [...]

Medusa I never hated her. Oh, I hated what she did, and I certainly feared what she might be able to do to me, but I never hated her. Finding her lair was a simple enough matter: she never looked behind her that night when I followed her back to her rambling estate edging up [...]