Stories

As you may have noticed, this software is starting to show cracks in the presentation. So, due to "reasons", we'll be moving to something else.

In other news, we have now grown our congregation of ROBOgators and our bask of cROBOdiles out so that bad robots that come here and try to vacuum up the content will be eaten.
Don't worry - you meat people are safe unless you go poking around in places you're not supposed to go.

. . . and finally! I am introducing "the bookshelf"!

You can find it at https://stories.novarata.net/shelf/ and it should be easier to read (stories in chronological order, instead of newest first)

A man has a cat friend he carries everywhere.

Others only see a man with a whole-arm cat puppet with a offhand-operated armature to emote the puppet's tail.

The cat knows things, but when the man tells other people, they only think the man's cuckoo has escaped his clock.

In the end, the cat runs away.

This is a response to the following writing prompt. Please read its title & (only the) anchor post before reading the following story . .

Howdy all!

Just dropping in to let you guys in on some of the stuff going on here.

Phideaux, Spider-Ted and Doctor Snapclaw (not his unpronounceable real name, but what Phideaux called him) were in a shuttle heading for a regional conference. Since joining the Galacticum science directorate and being assigned to UX-442 (out on the far edge of Galacticum space), this would be Phideaux's first time going to a conference. He was to give a talk about utilizing natural fibers found on UX-442.

Phideaux was raised in the country by a family who'd long lived in the country. For him, hunting & fishing and foraging for edible plants was just how things worked.

Every 25 years, a meeting of directors from all over the Galacticum is held (local & regional meetings are held more often)

The unofficial big topic of conversation at this meeting is "humans", as shortly into this 25-year period humans had joined the Galacticum.

  Sitting in lab 31 of the Galacticum Special Projects Division

"Do you remember the "bait ship" proposal we floated a while back?" queried Stanav of his associate Harqun "The one where we'd bait pirates in and destroy them without a trace?"

I started this website so budding authors (amateur or pending professionals) could have a place to share their stories and prove "first published" copyright date.