Tag: Escape
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Like Paper: Chapter 43
The call logs, once I found them, were not helpful. They were little more than strings of numbers representing the frequency used. However, in my searching and looking over the radio equipment I found that it had a satellite function, meaning I could call anyone I wanted. I didn’t know Sandra McHalis’ number but I…
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Like Paper: Chapter 42
Life returned to the way it was before the interview. Bland food, no one to talk to, and the endless hours with nothing to do but sing to myself or watch the waves through the hole in the floor. A few days passed with nothing changing until, as I was lying on my bed and…
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Like Paper: Chapter 34
Movie night was one of the new things they were introducing in order to help everyone calm down. I don’t know who was responsible for choosing the film but I found “The Great Escape” to be a bit ironic considering my own situation. I’d never seen it before though it was famous enough that I…
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Like Paper: Chapter 31
To say that my time with Captain Whorl was uncomfortable would be an understatement. Going back over everything that had happened was unpleasant, to say the least, but it did feel good to talk it out, to cry a bit, and have someone else say out loud that what I’d experienced was awful. We talked…
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Almost Super
Liev strained with all his might. It wasn’t a muscular effort, but a mental one. Regardless, he was sweating already from the effort. Slowly, as though he were pushing his way through a dense crowd, he lifted off the ground by a few inches. “And he’s up,” one of the scientists in the room remarked…
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The Fall of Akumu: Chapter 9
“Akumu protect us!” Kasyn shouted as he leapt away from the replacement gate, feeling undead hands clawing at his feet as they reached up from below the ground. More undead were climbing out of the soil in all directions while others stalked out of fields, their gaze locked on Kasyn and his companions. “Get to…
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The Fall of Akumu: Chapter 3
Nowhere was free from crime, not even Akumu’s paradise of Yume. It was just a bit harder to get away with it. That is, unless you knew the right secrets. It was those secrets that brought Zeter to an empty barn on the western side of Autay Wa in the predawn light of morning. The…
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Sacrifice
(Photo by Mikhail Nilov) There was definitely something wrong inside of her body, Gray acknowledged. That didn’t mean she slowed her frantic pace, only that she knew she could only keep going like this for a few more miles. The tearing pain was most likely a wound, maybe an arrow, but as long as she…
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The Solar King Part 27
(Photo by Torben Bühl) “Lunar port, this is Star Stream J-7-1-E on approach,” Lyon said over the comm. “We see you Star Stream, continue on your current course to landing bay 3-1-9,” came the reply. It was spoken fairly quickly and with the tone of someone used to giving out near identical instructions over and…
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The Solar King Part 24
(Photo by Space X) Sleep was a terrible way to clear one’s mind. Chester hadn’t slept well the last few days and then not at all the night before. Why, upon waking up when the rapid transport reached the space port, did Chester’s mind clear enough for him to think properly about what he’d just…
Bridge of Broken Glass 