Coz's published ficlets
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Propellers
Jimmy loved watching the men put up the propellers in the back field. A couple of them were already spinning, and he could he…
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End of an Enemy (Guardians Ep. 29)
Chaz aged before my eyes… I could almost see the blood dessicating in his veins. His hair turned silver as we stood there, ...
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Unfit (Guardians Ep. 27)
“So who IS worthy?” Sylvia asked.
Pater looked my way. I looked back at him.
“I’m not, any more. I tried as Regent. Couldn’...
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A Simple Plan (Guardians Ep. 25)
Sylvia looked back and forth between us. She never got our sense of humor.
“So,” Pater said, “do we have a plan?”
“Syl?” I …
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Another Calm (Guardians Ep. 23)
Xanadu can be hard to move around if you’re not its master, or a guest. The place itself seems to get in the way… doors ope…
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First Alert
A subtle chime would be the first indicator of the final battle.
“Outfold, sir. Seventeen AUs out, due North.”
The air in t…
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Other Ways Than Straight Ahead (Guardians, Ep. 21)
Lucio backed away slightly, nervously, and held out his hand – the bars flared brightly. Stavro moved up to stand beside him….
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Imprisoned (Guardians, Ep. 19)
My eyes were clearing. Pater and I lay on a dirt floor; Sylvia sat on a bench of marble by me. Pillars stood sentry, holding …
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Betrayal In Battle (Guardians Ep. 18)
We’d been noticed. I heard Chaz call something out, and the daemons in the valley turned toward us. Some started loping towar…
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Home Healthlink, Inc.
The Home Healthlink team was two men and two women in lab coats, paper booties over their shoes, paper hats holding in stray …
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Grim Determination (Guardians Ep. 16)
“Kill it where?” Pater said. “It’s spread across the globe. Wherever a Guardian was, daemons arose. Some of us were busy at t…
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Extrication (Guardians, Ep. 14)
As I stepped through the gate, the hungriest and most desparate of the daemons charged. Perfect. I trapped it just before thr…
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Reawakening (Guardians, Ep. 12)
My panic lasted a short eternity. I was hunted, consumed, frightened, fleeing, paralyzed, singed, dismembered, frozen, and a …
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Undue Influence (Guardians, Ep. 10)
I realized I’d been manipulated, but I didn’t know how thoroughly until I found myself unable to move. This couldn’t have bee…
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That Sick Feeling (Guardians, Ep. 9)
The momentary surge of panic I felt was not of me – it was something external. Induced. I don’t panic anymore. I’m not sure I…
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Ill Met (Guardians, Ep. 7)
Somewhere around the first minute, I knew this wasn’t going to be an ordinary fate-dive. There was no buffeting to and fro on…
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Resignation (Guardians, Ep. 5)
I stepped back from the edge and willed myself to calm. My body reshaped to “normal,” that state I used to inhabit by nature …
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Refusal (Guardians, Ep. 3)
I flexed my will, old, unused muscles of the mind reshaping metal back into flesh and bone.
“My service is done. My term se…
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The Hidden Armory
Joe swung the sledge, and the bricked-up cellar doorway collapsed into rubble. He grabbed his lantern and stepped inside, hop…
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Autumn (Guardians, Episode 1)
The clouds mirrored my mood. I sat back against the trunk of the old oak my grandfather’s initials were carved into and stare…
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