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26 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes
Lev and Alexei stood outside Boris’s dilapidated mansion for the second time in one night. “Why the hell are we back here?” Lev asked. Anxiety began to lumber to its feet as he remembered what happened inside just hours ago. Alexei ran a hand through...
23 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This was disturbing news and completely unexpected. Ted asked if he could examine her cluster in the basement of the complex. That would give him some idea of how much of her was still working. He might even be able to restore sectors that were do...
22 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The next day we drove across the Bay Bridge to the campus. Ted knew it well. That’s where he worked as a tech on the goggles. I put my gun belt on and slung a machine gun over my shoulder just in case and we walked straight into a crowd of glass w...
21 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Xenobia It wasn’t hard to find this camp from all the details he’d given. They weren’t in hiding either. I heard the sound of children playing before I came to the bend in the gravel road that led to their camp. I strolled right up to it on my hor...
18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I suppose my story starts back in two thousand twenty four. My son was two and my daughter six. I had a beautiful wife and a beautiful house right on a beach in Santa Cruz. I’d already made my fortune in the tech industry and at thirty my future s...
18 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The chamber is blandly furnished. A grey tenement tepidly illumined by a few grey candles, and tin lantern-forks. Like silence, made skin and temporality, she drifts and snakes down the low lintel and onto a rough-planked floor blotted by the sour d...
18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We took our guns from our packs. I heard the sound of twigs breaking just out of sight, then a pleading voice: “don’t shoot, don’t shoot. We’re unarmed.” A man stepped into the shadowy light of our almost expired campfire. Two smaller figures foll...
18 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes
Lev rarely fed where he lived. At least his brother had taught him that much, even though Alexei didn’t follow the rule himself. There were times, he was ashamed to admit, even he’d broken that rule. The consequences of being caught wouldn’t be as di...
17 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As we collected our gear and our horses, I decided it would be best to make the two day trek back home and use the truck for the trip to Oregon and check out this clan. On horseback such a distance would take a week each way and if the Indians spo...
17 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist
For a thousand years, the Opal Quarter has spread and sprawled like a hungry, fungal organ from out the ventricle of the great City’s heart. There are walls within walls, within tangles of odd architecture. Common masonry in the embrasure of uncanny...
