YEAR: 52028 HESHIP: Matriark II, Super-Frigate Exploration classSUPERVISORY COMPUTOR SYSTEM: Exterior Guard Drone fiveLOCATION: Nojo memorial Farms and GardensPRESENT: CORPORAL MACKINGSub-Captain Ortner’s Watch Log     ORT: There falls another Hahaoyan day. The darkness grows like a fog over the dust....

You held stars in your fingersI’m sure of it,or perhaps it was just your wink  playing tricks.Do I reach for one,or claim  the whole sky?Reach if you must, but know thisstars are not souvenirs.They bruise easily  and remember the warmthof every hand that dared them closer.I watch from beyond clouds, beyond winds,from...

glasslit fortunes shine in mine eyesselling pieces of soulgreedy veil lying to methe pain of sulkchase my dreams awaymy carnal desires thrumbut told me false talesstriking passion pervert the momentand my readied heady feeling unleashedhedonistic and hypnotically smokymy heart...

hideous need smiled at mecraving my pain, it desiredinsulting cave I felt it in my strengthpowerless seduction, I felt weakcaressing my dark I thought to risedressed in black cloaking my hurtwith a wild eyed expression I spy deathfighting his...