“Excellent,” Church said. “How bad is the damage to Warspite? Is Hermes still in fighting trim?” Weatherby shook his head. “You know I can’t answer those, Church, and you couldn’t print them in any event.” The cleverest thing Weatherby had … Continue reading
“Commander Weatherby!” Weatherby turned. Hustling after him down one of Resolution‘s narrow corridors was a short man with unkempt blond hair and a five-o’clock shadow Weatherby found unduly irritating; or, perhaps he was letting his opinion of the man influence … Continue reading
A pegboard, corporate IDs hanging from nearly every spot, suggested I’d been right, as did the high-end computer sitting by the desk, and the stacks of data disks on most of the flat surfaces. I couldn’t legally take any of … Continue reading
Before I dive into the actual story, a quick introduction: I’m behind on my normal writing trying to get one story out the door to magazines, so I’m dipping into the unpublished vignette archive a bit. I mentioned, in planning … Continue reading
We have not yet seen Nathaniel Cannon, skypirate, be a pirate. In the next two stories to run here, we also probably won’t see Nathaniel Cannon be a pirate in the strictest, most traditional sense. Therefore, I thought I should … Continue reading
The following is a flash fiction piece I wrote last year for the ‘Creatures of the Night’-themed October edition of a now-defunct online magazine. Moonlight shone between the clouds as they began to part, dropping their last few flurries upon … Continue reading
Fires cast twisting shadows on the streets, the predawn gloom just now bright enough to light the stretches between them. A flaming boulder soared overhead and crashed through a wooden building a hundred yards away. Debris clattered to the road … Continue reading
“Stop, thief!” the man shouted. Sif risked a glance over her shoulder. He had looked so slow, weighed down by his armor, his furs, his great horned helmet, and most worryingly, his enormous double-headed axe. He had turned out to … Continue reading
KNOW YOUR PIRATE ZEPPELINS: INCONSTANT Manufacturer: Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques, Marseilles Type: custom-built privateer Engines: Eight Peugeot V12 blaugas engines, internal mounts, 1,150hp each -four low starboard pusher propellers, staggered -four low port pusher propellers, staggered Bow chaser: 3-inch … Continue reading
KNOW YOUR PIRATE ZEPPELINS: ARYS Manufacturer: Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH, Friedrichshafen Type:Peter Strasser-class Kampflinienluftschiff (‘Airship of the Line’) Engines: Eight Maybach M589 V16 Diesel Engines, 890 kW (1,200 hp) each -four low starboard gondolas, staggered -four low port gondolas, staggered Bow … Continue reading
