CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

LAST WEEK, Simone revealed that the Pain-Eaters were coming. This week, Tiger says FedExplore are moving their complex, and she has to hurry if she's going to save her sisters. Chapter 8 (Excerpt) – Answers & Oops Wow, Simone! That is some letter! Firstly, I can’t get Odyssey and Redstone to evacuate. They absolutely, point-blank refused—and, this time, I think they actually agreed with each other. Neither of them wants to leave. They both said we had to see the experiment through. And, yes, I raised all your points with them. I told them about not knowing the numbers we could expect in an incursion, or the weapons, or how the aliens fight. I asked how many they sent to Deskeden, or Tarvesh, and no-one gave me any answers. The only good thing that came out of it was that the security detail started to look worried. I’ve done enough digging to know that, when these guys get worried, they go and do something about it. They’ll be digging, even if th...

Last week we had a very short piece of military science fiction. This week, it's a piece of science fiction much closer to the oceans of our home world, and it forms the February 8th entry in 365 Days of Flash Fiction . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Del Marina Betrayal In the laboratories of Santos del Marina we saw many things: sea cows that gave milk humans could drink, leafy dragons that breathed a storm of sharp, poisonous shards, puffer fish able to propel spiral shell-boats, and sea jellies the colour of rainbows, which tasted like strawberries and peaches. We didn’t see what Santos was doing to the whales, and we really shoulda seen through his quiet smile and calm façade. Twenty-eight days after he’d started, the first whale dared approach us for help—the only one who didn’t think we already knew of Santos’s mischief and condoned it. At first we recoiled, and then we struck. We visited the del Marina laborato...