A human rescued from the wreckage of a jump drive disaster exhibits the same biorhythms as an affini. Can a sophont reach the other side of a medical wardship without becoming a floret? Set in @GlitchyRobo’s HDG universe; probably not a good intro to the setting.

Stygia is a psychic parasite, able, but not willing, to form a symbiotic bond with her host. After all, why would you do that when submission is so much more delicious?

Claire Shelley is rich, she’s ruthless, and she wants Doctor Stevenson to do the impossible for her. He can, but at what price?

Scarlet gets told to be herself. Unbeknownst to her, “her self” may not be what she expects.

A survivor of the Seattle Incident is questioned about the spread of the X.

A troubled young man visits a mysterious hypnotist who says she can make his bimbofication fantasies come true. But what follows, instead, is an inhuman transformation.

Captain Samuel Dirkost is commander of a wing of Resistance fighters unwilling to surrender to Affini Compact. The Affini have plans of their own, unveiling a secret prototype device used to curtail the Terran Rebel threat. Will Sam succumb to this new danger? Yes. Yes he will.

Theoretical xenobiologist Joanna Harrington is called in to deal with an alien invasion that’s all too real.

A collection of microfiction, some of which has been published elsewhere, mostly in physical media.