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ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 9
Ellie and Todd weren’t the only ones panicking. At that very moment, Ensign Gel O’Tin, the Impulsive’s only gelatinous lifeform crewman, was slapping the door chime of his commander, Lt. LaFuentes, and begging, “Come one, L.T. Open up, open up!” Behind him, a couple...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 8
Jeb was not the only one to be awakened from a sound sleep. Light years away, Todd Ahndmore, chief janbot programmer for CleanSpace Inc., yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes before turning on his monitor. He rubbed them again as the bridge of the Impulsive...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 7
Ensign Daphne Becca was also looking at the logs she’d recorded, but she didn’t find anything amusing about them. That thing could have killed me, she thought as she watched the Marvin’s doctor and nurse hauling up the anvil, giggling and bumping against each other...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 6
The first thing Ellie did upon entering her quarters was to turn the temperature down five degrees. Then she downloaded the bridge logs into her computer and started to play them, but sitting in the chair made her think of the times she’d been sitting there with Todd...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 5
Acting Captain’s Log, Intergalactic Date 677001.33 We’ve completed our mission of downloading logs and accounting for all the crewmen. As Lieutenant Doall suspected, we did find a couple in the back seats of a shuttle, but they were obviously not hiding. We also...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 4
Ensign Becca screamed again and started to run, but Enigo held her fast. “Don’t move!” When she had calmed, he tapped his communicator. “LaFuentes to away teams. The ship is booby-trapped. I repeat, there are lethal traps set on the ship. Watch for tripwires, pause...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 3
“Ellie! Commander!” Leslie called out as an avalanche of bodies fell on her friend and their first officer. Without thinking, she dug into the pile of bodies, caught Ellie by the arm and pulled her out. She moved to go after the commander, but he’d already managed to...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 2
Ellie felt a tad bit guilty about feeling glad to be on the away team. True, they were walking around a virtual graveyard, but at least everyone seemed to have died happy. She glanced at the couple in the Jeffries tube. Some died very happy, indeed. She missed Todd....
Review of The Haunted Cathedral by Antony Barone Kolenc
Tony is a good friend and a great writer of middle-grade books. He was kind enough to let me review his latest, The Haunted Cathedral. I enjoyed it greatly. Read on for a review. An ill-fated journey, a long-lost uncle, and a mysterious cathedral mark the next chapter...
ST:HMB Naked Impulse, Part 1
All right, people! It's time to Get Naked and Get Looney! Star Trek fans know and love the episodes ST:TOS "The Naked Time" and ST:TNG "Naked Now." It's time for the HMB Impulsive to have its own wacky infection. If you don't remember these episodes, you might want to...
Doall’s Do-Over now a book
If you enjoyed this story, then get it as a novella. If you haven't been following Ellie's adventure in time or if Google led you here, then read on about this new Space Traipse novella. https://www.amazon.com/Doalls-Do-Over-Space-Traipse-Story-ebook/dp/B08VM7NKFQ...
ST:HMB Doall’s Do-Over, Part 20
Captain’s Log, Intergalactic Date 676593.54 I’m going to have some words with the Living History Society about their instructions when working with the Big Rock Donut of Time. We were having a grand time in the Wild West when my ops officer, Ensign Ellie Doall, got...