Courne Supremacy

“Alright, clothes off. Get in,” Alicia demanded of Lily as she stripped out of her blouse and pants. Lily stood abreast of Alicia fumbling with the buttons of her dress and stared into the brownish water in the corroded porcelain tub leaning against the wall of their inn room. “It’s no time to be shy [...]

“She’s getting worse,” Alicia said, as she pulled splinters from under Lily’s fingernails with a small pair of pliers she took from the laboratory. She used a wet cloth and cleaned the blood off Lily’s fingertips. Lily jolted and jerked with every tinge of pain but her eyes stayed closed and she remained in a [...]

Lily watched the walking machine’s row of legs below them move in a wave-like pattern, raking across the forest floor sweeping debris, leaves, and anything else that might be in the way through its wooden legs. She flattened herself against the monster’s fur afraid that if the machine hit a rock it might send her [...]

In case you’re interested in reading from the beginning, I’ve setup a page that links to all of the individual stories.
Chapter 0: Alicia and the Mechanical Bird
Here’s the original story in which my current short stories are all based off. This story follows the life of a young woman named Alicia, who believes that her [...]

From the sky, Alicia found the dirt road snaking through the countryside leading to the mouth of the Watchmaker’s Forest. “Buckle up! We’re landing!” She called back to her passenger Lily, who was tightening her embrace around a small pail with one hand and reaching for a rope to strap across her chest with the [...]