The Road to the Stars - Epilogue
It's over? It's really over? Well, no. Just this part of my story. Don't worry. You can catch up with me in The Measure of Humanity. If...
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Kendra Cassidy
Mar 16, 202218 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty-Six
Talk about timing. I've never been happy about killing. Well. Maybe a couple times. I've never enjoyed it. Let's put it that way. But...
Kendra Cassidy
Mar 9, 20226 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty-Five
All of those people. Wiped from the skies in minutes by a bastard who didn't care enough to learn what he was shooting down. And yes, I...
Kendra Cassidy
Mar 2, 202210 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty-Four
It was time to start picking up the pieces. Or so we thought. Yes, we still had what we thought to be a crapton of missiles headed our...
Kendra Cassidy
Feb 23, 202213 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty-Three
Space battles suck. I've been in more than I want to think about. Shit happens which nobody has ever seen before, because microgravity...
Kendra Cassidy
Feb 16, 20228 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty-Two
And the shoe drops. We knew that Artemis was going to try to hammer us. We didn't know when. And we took every second they gave us to...
Kendra Cassidy
Feb 9, 20224 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty-One
I'd love to say that Nicole Crozier was always secretly on our side. But I can't. When she was thrust into the role of Minister of War,...
Kendra Cassidy
Feb 2, 20225 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twenty
I might have mentioned this once or twice along the way, but I hate waiting. Always have. The only thing which makes it tolerable, ever,...
Kendra Cassidy
Jan 26, 20225 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Nineteen
One thing about the Primus which I will give her: she was always decisive. There was never any reason to complain about a delay in the...
Kendra Cassidy
Jan 19, 20224 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Eighteen
I don't want anyone to think that I advocate torture. I don't. On the other hand, the bastard was responsible for the deaths of dozens of...
Kendra Cassidy
Jan 12, 20224 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Seventeen
What a deal with the devil. To be fair to Nicole, she didn't have any idea what she was getting into, and if I'd been in her situation I...
Kendra Cassidy
Jan 5, 20224 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Sixteen
Okay, I wasn't a happy camper. But I was dealing with it better than before I talked to Cris. Or, more accurately, before she talked to...
Kendra Cassidy
Dec 29, 20213 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Fifteen
Last week I told you how I felt about the aftermath of the fight. This week Cris put my head back on straight. Seems I was too busy...
Kendra Cassidy
Dec 22, 20216 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Fourteen
Fuck, this was hard. Sorry about the language, but I hated this. Absolutely hated it. I mentioned, a couple weeks ago, about my history...
Kendra Cassidy
Dec 15, 20213 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Thirteen
And enter Nicole Crozier. I have to give the late and otherwise unlamented Primus, now many years in her well-deserved reclamation pit,...
Kendra Cassidy
Dec 8, 20216 min read
The Road to the Stars - Chapter Twelve
This first battle in the Artemis War was a real shock to me. I'd been in plenty of fights before, going all the way back to my tussles...
Adam Gaffen
Nov 23, 20218 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Eleven
I hate missiles. I’m no angel, okay? I’ve killed plenty of people in my time, some of them really up close and personal, others at arm’s...
Adam Gaffen
Nov 16, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Ten
I had to do it. Sorry. If you like discussions of naval power and politics and all sorts of technical details, you’ll love this chapter....
Adam Gaffen
Nov 9, 20217 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Nine
War council time. I was pissed. The home that Cass and I had lived in for the past six years, raised our girls in, had been destroyed....
Adam Gaffen
Nov 2, 20214 min read
The Road to the Stars – Chapter Eight
I may have mentioned this before, but until I got to know Davie Whitmore, she was number one on my personal hit list. It’s not because I...
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