Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Shadaar
    The Shadaar
    The Shadaar
    Ebook38 pages32 minutes

    The Shadaar

    By Chris Winder

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Nik'Thil hasn't seen his home planet of Sha for many years. The trials of Peacemaker training have kept him busy for far too long.

    Now he returns home, not for a happy reunion with his kin, but to find and stop the terrorist who could ruin the economy of the planet, killing millions in the process.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Winder Books
    Release dateFeb 27, 2019
    ISBN9781386513308
    The Shadaar
    Author

    Chris Winder

    Chris Winder is a Science Fiction author, former United States Marine, husband, and father. His stories include Space Trash, a comic science fiction novel, Breach Team, a space Marine novel (co-written with best-selling author JR Handley), What Really Matters, a story told in the Four Horsemen Universe of Chris Kennedy Publishing, and more. Chris Winder lives in northern Arizona where he enjoys the peace and quiet of rural living along with his wife, youngest child, elderly dog, and two obnoxious but adorable cats.

    Read more from Chris Winder

    Related to The Shadaar

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Hernan Diaz, Fiction

      Mar 20, 2019

      Hernan Diaz, Fiction
      2 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Jan 1, 2020

      Ivy Lugbill, age 8 Indianapolis, IN I was so excited! My dad and I were going camping! After we packed all our stuff, my dad said, “Hop in!” I grabbed the paper towel roll binoculars I had been making and jumped into the car. It was a really . . . re

      7 min read

    • Article

      Jude THE OBSCURE

      Jun 18, 2021

      Jude THE OBSCURE
      5 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      Are you ready? I nodded. She slid the needle inand the sick cat, who only a moment before had tried toleap to the floor closed his eyes and exhaled. Andthat’s it, she said a little too brightly, pulling the needle out.That’s it? I asked. That’s all t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Then the Birds Began to Die

      Jul 22, 2021

      Then the Birds Began to Die
      8 min read

    • Article

      Change Of Heart

      May 7, 2020

      Change Of Heart
      7 min read

    • Article

      Good Dog!

      Sep 1, 2019

      Good Dog!
      8 min read

    • Article

      Earthlings

      Apr 9, 2021

      Earthlings
      5 min read

    • Article

      Gothic Revival

      Oct 1, 2020

      Gothic Revival
      9 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      Concerning The Future Of Souls

      Mar 19, 2024

      As a toddler she had caused a sensation in her family when she announced she wanted to live in a little hole like the ant. Not an ant, the ant. This might have been misheard. She was an easygoing child, not particularly thoughtful and stubbornly inar

      13 min read

    • Article

      Bugging Out

      Jul 16, 2019

      Like many of us, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with insects. I love the thought of them, diligently doing whatever it is they do while playing their important parts in the food chain and circle of life. I hate them on my boat, where they’r

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Primeval Comic Book

      Aug 1, 2017

      The Primeval Comic Book
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Machine Stops

      Dec 28, 2018

      The Machine Stops
      6 min read

    • Article

      Why look at Beth Cavener's Animals?

      Nov 1, 2017

      Why look at Beth Cavener's Animals?
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Bargain

      Dec 10, 2022

      “Which one of you owns G2V3889?” Cygnus glided through a luminescent star field suspended in the center of an otherwise dark, oblong studio, then turned in a slow circle to survey the twenty Agents surrounding him. “Come on, speak up.” Vega shuddered

      16 min read

    • Article

      How the Cicada Screams

      Dec 1, 2020

      How the Cicada Screams
      7 min read

    • Article

      Ben Marcus

      Jun 15, 2018

      My wife, Gin, once knocked gently on my head, as if it were a door. “Hello,” she kept saying. “Hello. Who’s in there?” She and our therapist, Dr. Sherby, laughed a little about this, so I did, too. What fun. Keep knocking on my head like that, like i

      23 min read

    • Article

      Slow Blues

      Sep 1, 2020

      Slow Blues
      17 min read

    • Article

      Unwante Guests Ed

      Aug 3, 2021

      Unwante Guests Ed
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Fox Disappearing in the Air

      Jun 1, 2022

      A Fox Disappearing in the Air
      11 min read

    • Article

      What’s It Like to Be Me Right Now?

      Nov 6, 2018

      What’s It Like to Be Me Right Now?
      4 min read

    • Article

      Leave No Trace

      Sep 2, 2022

      Leave No Trace
      10 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Shadaar

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Shadaar - Chris Winder

      The Shadaar

      ––––––––

      Tou’Ka City, Planet Sha

      Nik’Thil peered out the porthole of the shuttle as it approached the landing pad. His once-small village now extended further than he could see. His birth home, if it still existed, was hidden by a grotesque labyrinth of cylindrical and conical buildings which glimmered unnaturally in the bright sunlight.

      The forest, as far as he could tell, appeared to be healthy and lush, but had been pushed back several miles. He felt sick to his stomachs. This was the price of progress, he knew, but that didn’t mean he had to accept it. Suddenly he became aware of his surroundings. Something had yanked him out of his musings, and now he turned his attention to it fully.

      His olfactory glands detected something dangerous, something his species had, over millions of years of evolution, decided should be more important than anything else. He smelled smoke. A quick glance around him confirmed that he was not imagining the odor. Several other Shaadar onboard the shuttle were also looking around nervously. The other species, it seemed, either ignored their olfactory glands, or didn’t possess them.

      Two Shaadar one row behind him and on the opposite side leaned toward a window and pointed with their long fingers at something outside. Their mocha-colored skin became lighter and mottled, the equivalent to blanching. Nik’Thil glanced out his porthole but saw no source.

      He then erupted from his seat, stepped on several feet, tentacles and talons, apologizing to their owners on his way to the center aisle. Then he apologized to the owners of other appendages and locomotion organs on the other side of the shuttle as he pressed his brown face to the opposite porthole.

      In the distance was the source of the smoke. Several dozen hoverships swarmed the area from which it poured into the sky, leaving its dark, smeared prints on Nik’Thil’s home. The fire was not visible, but the evil, twisted finger of smoke and the streams of chemical fire retardant that streamed from the huge firefighting drones marked the beast.

      The being closest to the window was a Cochkala, a mean, dangerous badger-like species, and had finally had enough of this skinny, impolite, brown creature invading its personal space. She opened her mouth to, well, she hadn't exactly decided what she was going to do yet, but probably roar a warning to get the thing off of her. It was ugly, smelled bad and obviously had to learn some manners. When she finally made up her mind, she opened her mouth, inhaled deeply... and nearly choked on her own saliva.

      From the brown creature’s neck hung a translation pendant, which was not

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1