FrustratedPilot's published ficlets
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Hackett Continuum: Pilot Titles

The theme song isn’t by the original artist or even a tribute act. It’s been re-made by Mike Post’s house band in typical Hol…
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Hackett Continuum: Pilot Pre-titles 2

The erstwhile 750-1 strode out of the Selection Registrar’s office and through the waiting room, past the crowd of other draf…
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Hackett Continuum: Pilot Pre-titles 1
“Last four.”
“750-1.”
The man at the desk punched a few keys of his board and waited. Once the screen refreshed on his moni…
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Athena's Station Part 7

It was an easy solution to the third problem: he daisy-chained three garden hoses and thread one into the utility room window…
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Athena's Station Part 6

“You should have gotten one with two seats,” she said.
“The Cuban Air Force didn’t have very many of those. This one was t…
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Athena's Station Part 5

“My name for you is DeepPeace.”
The words flowed yet again through his mind, as he lay on the bed she had prepared for him…
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Athena's Station Part 4

She removed the padlock from the front doors and threw them wide open for him. She bade him inside, and as she followed him i…
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Athena's Station Part 3

He never had a chance to say “no”. She not only had a counterargument for every argument, but the reason for each one came ou…
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Athena's Station Part 2

After leaving the mother and daughter, she turned her attention to a college-aged man who was in the midst of refuelling his …
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Athena's Station Part 1
At a gasoline service station off the Interstate, somewhere in northern Kentucky, as the afternoon began to turn to evening:
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