Category: Change is the Only Option

    A trip to Amaurot, family news… Tony borrowed a local car for his trip to the administrative center of Utopia, Amaurot. He usually enjoyed his trips to the largest city. However, on this trip he was apprehensive. He had promised Simon he would talk to his sister about his niece. Now, he was uncertain…

A son’s demand, a father’s dilemma…     Hearing an exchange of voices in the hall as the men left, Francos probed the hall and found his uncle, his father-in-law and his son had arrived. Megal entered the office and bowed to his father. Francos greeted Carlos Bethal and Tuban Morales. Francos again marveled at how…

The Residency, a whitewashed report…     Francos requested Megal meet with him when the official days of mourning were over. He also invited his uncle and his father-in-law to join them. He suspected it would be an emotional meeting, so he also requested a damper be present from the House of Healing. The dampers had…

A shattered life, an unexpected change…     Megal Bethal Morales gazed out the window of the air car and again forced himself to relax. The view was beautiful. Crystalline formation in vivid yellows, reds, and black surrounded the many geysers and decorated the openings where the scalding water surged. They were passing through the Pools…

The Residency, Ciudad Centro, Refugio, Higgins World     The smoke from the destroyed apartment hung like a shroud over the Residency. Francos Hypath Morales, Overlord of Humanos Verdaderos, the True Humans, stood at the window staring at the still-smoking remains of the First Successor’s apartment. The fire had been so intense it had caused the…

Farm 22, Utopia Colony, Higgins World…     “Connor, watch what you are doing!” Sarita darted away from the manure pitched down the wagon bed by her foster brother. The shovel’s worth of dung spattered down her fish hide boots but missed her coveralls. “You’ve seen the representative’s air car before.”     Her brother stood at…