What do plumbing and politics have in common? Perhaps everything, perhaps nothing at all; either way, there seems to be a lot of coincidence in this morning's Washington Post.
A story in the Sevia Universe
Sundar wants to give the girl he likes a special treat, but in the middle of an urban war, that's not as easy as it sounds.
'Man In Debt' is a novella-length piece in fourteen chapters. Largely in correspondence form, it concerns a battle involving a wily borrower, his lender and their two firms of lawyers. The principals move from hostility to quasi-friendliness. Their legal representatives go the opposite way, with farcical results.
The survivor of a spaceship crash unknowingly founds a civilization of sentient dogs, who experience pivotal events of their history a thousand years later.
Non-fiction: A review of how dogs have been used in warfare. Note to parents: This story should be pasted to a word possessor and you can remove the last bit if you'd like to avoid the image of hungry dogs being exploded.