They have given every last reserve for the freedom of their people. Now, a Cardassian resistance fighter and his daughter face the final test of their spirits. And though no eye may behold and no scanner may detect its presence, there is hope and there is triumph even in this desolate place...

(November TrekBBS Writing Challenge entry.)

A prominent Cardassian rebel has been imprisoned on Bajor by a vedek of the “True Prophets,” and subjected to an awful degradation. Yet sometimes it is in weakness when one becomes strong...it all comes down to the choices that you make.

(January 2009 TrekBBS Writing Contest Runner-Up. “Exits in the Haze” takes place 18 years prior to “Sacrifice,” almost 19 years before "Captives' Ransom.”)

The Federation has done nothing to help his people. So why would Cardassian ensign Hirhul Mendral join the very Starfleet that watched as his people fell to Bajoran occupation?

Twenty-year-old Skrain Dukat has prayed hard and worked hard to bring himself to this place, but now that he's here at Yavenn Pretam University in his home city of Culat, there's tension in the air: the forces of Bajor are pressing closer and closer to the Cardassia system and there's been no stopping them yet.

He believed he was destined for the art of the courtroom. But now--might justice for an entire world someday rest in his hands?