Title: Paradigm Shift Version: 1.0, posted 2/27/06 (originally posted to LiveJournal 11/29/05) Rating: PG-13 for scatological language
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Summary: Tynus rethinks his job assignment. Because there's
toast, and then there's toast.
Paradigm Shift
by Mistral Amara
Tynus hated the color brown. It lacked the vibrancy of the blues and
greens that enlivened the insects he so enjoyed sketching. When his
superiors assigned him to the dead-end duty of a backwater listening
post on Fosforon, he saw his life stretch out before him in an unending
line of shapeless, shit-colored uniforms.
Until Avon and his
friend arrived, and brought with them the threat of his past being
exposed. New futures rose up before Tynus: long grey hours in a
Federation holding cell, the black void of his own annihilation.