Written for the TToT 2015 Daily Prompt Challenge.  One-shots featuring characters from Star Trek: Tesseract and Tesseract: The Academy Years, dealing with certain themes.

Day One: Wisdom
Day Two: Fairness
Day Three: Grace
Day Four: Melancholy
Day Five: Distance
Day Six: Generosity
Day Seven: Perseverance

Before they faced the Delta Quadrant, they had to conquer San Francisco.  The story of Icheb's, Maren O'Connor's and John Quigley's first year together at Starfleet Academy. 

What would have happened if everything had gone according to plan after Icheb decided to ask Maren to spend her life with him?

Here's a peek into an alternate universe where things went right.

Written for the TToT 2015 "Ficlet Flashdance" Challenge.

There are three tests every cadet dreads: The Kobayashi Maru, the "face your fears" psych test, and the survival test.  The first one demoralizes you, the second one scares you, and the third one tries to kill you.  Make it through all three, and interstellar exploration seems tame in comparison.

When Maren O'Connor takes her survival test, she's determined to last until the bitter, icy end. Still high on her Daystrom win, she's confident that with a bit of engineering magic, she can survive just about anything -- even the frozen hellscape of Earth's North Pole.  

Little does she know, she's not just working against the elements -- she's working against a Starfleet Command-sanctioned conspiracy ...

... little does Starfleet Command know, they're not the only ones good at conspiring.

John Quigley's life so far, measured by the noses he's smashed in anger -- and those he managed to refrain from breaking.

Written for the April 2014 "Innocence" Challenge

Trigger warnings:  Substance abuse, domestic violence, child neglect.

Gifts for the holidays! Here are some ficlets set in others' universes. I hope I got the voices right.

Companion piece to Separation Anxiety from Maren O'Connor's point-of-view.  Inspired by a request from Lil black dog.   

Seven scenes between 100 and 500 words.  Some connect, some don't.  Just seven random moments in the life of Maren O'Connor, eventual chief engineer of the USS Tesseract.   

Written for the Twelve Trials of Triskelion Ficlet Flashdance 2013.

There's the family you're born with.  And the family you choose.  

Transitions can be awkward.

It's 2379, and Cadet 3rd-Class John Quigley's Starfleet career is about to end before it begins ... until help arrives from an unexpected source. �Sometimes it's good to have friends -- or friends-of-friends -- in high places.

(Rated T for language.)

It's Valentine's Day, and no one is happy.  Three young Starfleet officers scattered across half the galaxy ruminate on love, loss and longing in the 24th century.

(Contains minor spoilers for Star Trek: Tesseract.)