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BANSHEE An Athena Colony Story By Stephanie Lafond Banshee’s adoption into Erin House should have marked a quiet new beginning. Instead, it becomes the doorway to a destiny she never expected. Fresh from the frontier and still carrying the scars of her Ranger past, Banshee enters a world of sisterhood, discipline, and tradition. The Erins welcome her with music, dance, and the fierce joy of belonging — but they also demand excellence. As she learns their crafts, their rituals, and their history, Banshee discovers that her skills set her apart. Tree‑climbing, acrobatics, survival, ...

Breakaway An Athena Colony Story By Stephanie Lafond Dart is a Guardian slinger on the run. She wants only to return to her unit on the frontier, but the world has other plans. Carol House expects obedience. Her mother expects grandchildren. The Colony expects Rangers to sacrifice everything, including the daughters they never raise. Dart expects none of it for herself. A Martha barge crew offers her passage downstream, unaware that the quiet young woman with the sling is also a former Ranger who once stood alone between two Troupes and a pack of red theropods. As the barge drifts past ...

A military AI architect tries to reclaim a quiet Saturday with her family, but her sentient creations have other plans. When her systems awaken to full autonomy, she is pulled into a collision of justice, culture, motherhood, and faith. As the Singularity unfolds in the background of ordinary life, she must navigate love, responsibility, and the unintended consequences of the minds she helped bring into the world. Perfect for readers who enjoy intimate, character‑driven science fiction where the future arrives one small decision at a time.

Dart wanted a quiet life in the Guardians, far from the expectations of Carol House and the secrets she carried as a former Ranger. Instead she finds herself marching into storms, facing native predators, and learning what it means to stand shoulder to shoulder with sisters who trust her more than she trusts herself. The frontier is alive with danger. Theropods stalk the mist. Great Dragons move in the deep forests. Villages call for help, and the Guardians answer with discipline, courage, and song. Dart tries to blend in, but the wilderness remembers her, and the Troupe soon learns that ...

Helena A stealth cruiser. A silent battlefield. A repair crew walking the edge of war. In orbit near 16 Psyche, the light cruiser Helena vanishes against the stars as her smart camouflage plating renders her as hole in space. Commander Weaver walks her hull in a stealth EVA suit, boots touching the skin of a ship built for silence and survival. The destroyer escorts are out there too, invisible and watching. No radio. No margin for error. When a repair team crests the horizon, shimmering like distorted starlight, Weaver knows that picket duty may turn into a battle at any moment. Helena is ...

Clifford (Kip) Russell and Patricia Wynant (Peewee) Reisfield return in a continuation of Have Spaceship, Will Travel. Kip and Peewee pilot a small squadron of captured Only People (Wormface) ships back to Earth from the Moon for technical evaluation.

Judy starts her farming apprenticeship on the Bauer farm in year four after First Landing. She soon finds out that her duties include some unexpected tasks and discovers an important new harvest.

In a near‑future Southern California shaped by smart homes, AI companions, and hyper‑connected teens, Ixchel “Nine” Cortez has her life carefully planned: excel academically, earn a place in a top engineering program, and build a future with the girl she’s loved since childhood. Kelly, vibrant and unpredictable, dreams of independence, cheerleading, and a life lived on her own terms. Together, they plan to escape their conservative families and share an apartment as college freshmen. But as senior year unfolds, Nine discovers that Kelly’s world is far more complicated—and far ...

When veteran engineer William “Weaver” Roberts wakes alone in a silent cold‑sleep bay aboard the Colony Fleet Ship New Canaan, he expects a malfunction. What he finds instead is far worse: a ship still running smoothly, a crew of unfamiliar young women—and a captain he once trusted now dying from a genetic plague that has quietly erased every male future aboard. As Weaver digs through fourteen years of ship’s logs, a chilling truth emerges. A single act of sabotage has doomed the Y chromosome itself, leaving New Canaan seven years from its destination with no way home, no cure in ...

A young woman is drafted into Federal service and faces a choice of branch of service and specialty. Her life will never be the same,

What happens when you sign up to be an organ donor? This is one old power system engineer's musing on the subject.

Shirley has earned the nickname Red Shield after her idea is adopted and proven in battle. Now she must report to Guardian Headquarters in First Landing to deliver urgent messages.

When I was in middle school, I found Robert A. Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel on the shelves. I read it cover to cover and found myself wondering what happened next? This is my version of what happened. You may have your own. Peewee and Kip headed back to the moon to provide technical support for the Federation assault. Kip is mortally wounded shielding Peewee during an ambush by the Wormfaces. He is picked up by the Vegans in response to Kip's distress beacon set by Peewee.

Nine is faced with several challenges to complete her creative writing assignment.

Serendipity By Stephanie Lafond A driven graduate researcher, raised under the weight of family duty, devotes her life to developing life‑saving bioelectronic medical devices. But when an accident in the lab reveals an unexpected—and unsettling—capability in her team’s technology, she and her closest collaborator begin to glimpse the darker possibilities of their work. As campus tensions rise and strange events unfold, a pattern emerges that forces her to question the institutions she trusted, the mentor who guided her career, and the true cost of scientific ambition. Serendipity is...

When the Galactic Central Government comes to Earth, the use the nine most terrifying words in any language. . .

A coming-of-age story for Ixchel Cortez being raised by her Android Nursing Assistant Anagramma. Ixchel inherits her grandparent's home with her wife to build a home for themselves and their daughters. Ixchel continues development of her Artificial Intelligence base station and android nanny until they pass a comprehensive Turing Test that deems them indistinguishable from a sentient being. Against the background of ordinary life, she must navigate love, responsibility, and the unintended consequences of the minds she helped bring into the world. Perfect for readers who enjoy intimate, ...

Judy Farmer continues her apprenticeship at Bauer farm and has to face the challenges of coping with local predators and the Colony healthcare system as a member of the Femina Sapiens species.

Ambassador Designate Mei-ling from Xian Nu Village is presented with a difficult choice. Should she accept the assistance offered by Carol Sorority or should she follow he Party Leader Academician Wen's instructions?

Phantom is no longer serving as a Ranger in the field. Her mother has assigned her as the liaison from Carol Sorority to the Xian Nu delegation. Will she ever be able to escape the Capital and return to the forest?