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The Alien Refugee
He’d scour out his entire being if he knew any prayers with the power to do so.
More than twenty years before the events of Interspecies Alliances and a few short years after the brutal Klah’Eel invasion of Southern Tava, refugees of all kinds work to build new lives for themselves on the tropical planet of Carta.
Ha’ral came to Carta fleeing the horrors of the war – both the horrors that he witnessed and the horrors that he inflicted. He became a guard and dedicated himself to becoming a new man. A patient man. A kind man. A man who would never raise a hand in anger.
Maybe even a man who might deserve the playful smiles and casually intimate touches of the handsome human pickpocket who hangs around his patrols.
But Zyk came to Carta fleeing horrors of his own and finding out who Ha’ral used to be might be more than Zyk can bear.
A very steamy 20k word short story set in the Interspecies Alliances world featuring a man yearning to be better, a man yearning to heal, and a happily ever after.
Content Warning for on page violence and implied past sexual trauma.
Searching
Every man is searching for something, whether he wants to admit it or not.
Steven has spent his whole life as a traveling bard, and his aching feet are taking him north of the old Freeway 101 for the first time, where the land is as cold, bitter, and sparse as its people.
Jacob has spent his whole life as a hunter in that cold, bitter, sparse place hearing tales of what people could do in the south — what men could do in the south.
One night, Steven comes across Jacob’s fire and they both finally have the chance to find something they could never admit they were searching for.
They have only to take it.
This is a short story set in a zombie apocalypse world that I will be revisiting in a future series! For now, enjoy this steamy (and I like to think sweet, but maybe that’s just me) encounter between Steven and Jacob.