“Agent Therrus, are you insinuating your cover has been compromised?” I opened my mouth but swiftly shut it again. Is that what I’m trying to say? The hologram of my Earthan Initiative contact lifted an...

Therrus tried to quiet his heavy breathing, back pressed to the door, hands bound before him. He attempted, again, to pull apart the bindings. Stars, these are tight. How do they have access to such advanced...

“Get it right this time, Therrus.” Loriq’s green skin shimmers as he stabs a finger at the main console of the Civaran starship. “Three relocations in two months?” “Word of honor.” I raise one six-fingered...

Luke’s six-fingered hand trembled as he poured foamed milk with precision into the inky black liquid—each muscle begging to be the first to perform the long-awaited act. He had only read about making an...

I didn’t know what hit me. Only moments before I had been reveling in the frost crunching beneath my sneakers and admiring Earth’s rising sun. Technically I wasn’t doing anything that was prohibited. It just...