Tootfinder

Squirrels at War: Losses
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Maven woke me up by gradually increasing the light source. I hadn’t dreamed at all. No green ooze, no Ilyrians collapsing and crumpling up when the herbic…

Squirrels at War: Shuteye
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The Dazzler announced that she would remain as neutral observer for the Terran Triplanetary Federation but would defend herself if attacked again. Captai…

Squirrels at War: Injection
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** I asked Maven about the effects of our drone injections on Ilyrian ships. She played an intercepted video that came from the first injected ship, the o…

Squirrels at War: Maneuvers
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The Ilyrians who had gone after the fake ship Lion’s Nose had blasted the beacon and were now after the Dazzler. If they fired on it, Terrans would be …

Squirrels at War: Initial Conflict
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** We raised the Tooth on an encrypted channel and told them we were going to attack one of the two ships heading for them. They acknowledged and w…

Squirrels at War: The Enemy Arrives
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** I had another big question for Maven. I asked, “Couldn’t you fight the Ilyrians yourself? Why do you need me or the Tweedles? Couldn’t you laun…

Squirrels at War: A Brief Respite
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** We thought about launching some drones into the periphery of the debris field, programmed to attack anything Ilyrian that came near. We decided a…

Squirrels at War: First Kill
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** On the coms I heard “Chit chit chit chit chit! Chit chit chit chit chit!” The translator just said, “Celebratory noises.” The Tweedles were happy. I w…

Squirrels at War: First Strike
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Normally with a new ship we would go on a shakedown cruise for several weeks to test systems and fix bugs. We didn’t have the time. We had to hope t…

Squirrels at War: Drone Mother
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** As it turned out, I was put in command of an entirely new type of warship, a drone mother. This was largely due to Zuki’s recommendation, but also b…

Squirrels at War: Flight School
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** After the probe was destroyed, the Ilyrian scout ships disappeared. We were sure they would be back, but in what force and for what purpose, no one…

Squirrels at War: Herbicide
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** That night, in my new room, I had a different version of my repeating anxiety dream. Instead of the Iskan ripping a giant hole in the hull of the Magic…

Squirrels at War: Sneak Attack
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The meeting with the military went as I expected. They maintained that they were perfectly capable of defending themselves, but repeatedly stressed …

Squirrels at War: Politics
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** I wanted to stay and watch what happened when Lion’s Tooth got to Arbol, but Mac said we had an appointment. Another scientist took over the workstation…

Squirrels at War: Intrusion
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The Ilyrians had entered the system beyond the orbit of Blyss, so the signal, traveling at light speed, was 30 minutes old. Mac explained that Oran had…

Squirrels at War: Mission Control
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Mac and I walked into the Spacers Guild Mission Control Center. A majestic real-time holographic display of the Oran planetary system dominated t…

Squirrels at War: Rescue
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** I watched the sun rise on the viewscreen. Soon it was a bright morning, but no attendant showed up with breakfast. I tried opening the door, but it was im…

Squirrels at War: The Nightmare
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration An installment in the ongoing story. I am collecting the posts as they become available on this page. *** “Let’s try this again.” “Do I have to, Henry? It’s not easy.” “You are making progress. Think …

Squirrels at War: New Clothes
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration A new scene in the ongoing story. Scroll to the end for links more scenes. *** The attendant brought more porridge and vegetables. When I had finished, I had another visitor, a tailor. I had been wearin…

Squirrels at War: Interrogation
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration The beginning of the story can be found here. *** I had left the viewscreen tuned to the outdoor view so I saw the sun come up. Thus I was awake and rested when the interrogator arrived, this one high…

Squirrels at War: An Ongoing Space Opera
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration This story began as a response to an image provided by Visual Inspiration on Mastodon. The story seemed bigger than a couple of Mastodon posts, so I decided to continue it on this WordPress b…

In my latest Squirrels at War post, I forgot to put in the hashtags. Here they are:
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