Corporal Dia Zephyr assumed it was just another drill, no more than a Navy tradition, a rite of passage for the recruits. She expected a spacewalk, maybe a shooting game inside an asteroid field, skimming along the Collective's border before turning back to the Empire's space. After all, this was what they knew, what everyone expected. But that's not what happened. Highest ranks: [27 in #Science Fiction - 25 in #Horror 10-01-2018]

in which a blind woman falls in love with a very gay modern medusa (Copyright © 2018 by vanillaVDE)

A cursed priestess. A lethal glance. A promise made in divine fury. Medusa was the devoted priestess of Athena, bound by sacred vows until Poseidon violated the goddess's holy temple and destroyed Medusa's life in a single night. Blinded by fury and betrayal, Athena cursed her former priestess, turning her beauty into a nightmare that transforms any living creature into stone. Heartbroken and exiled, Medusa is left with only one escape: Athena's parting promise. The curse will break only if Medusa finds someone who truly loves her, flaws and all. But how can love bloom when a single glance means death?

Iris isn't quite like the others. She's got a power inside her that she knows no one else does. When she gets abducted and placed in a detention centre for people like her, her world implodes in a burst of frustration and hurt. Iris is suddenly thrusted on a journey of self-discovery and a mission for survival, fighting for her loved ones, and for her people; mutants just like her. She may not be invincible, but she is unbreakable. (UNDER REVISION)