Tag: Injured
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Like Paper: Chapter 21
I wondered what the others must be thinking as I stumbled into the third set of explosives. The force of it ripped through my jumpsuit, again, and when the dust cleared my legs were already blossoming a nice group of bruises. I had to be getting close, with all these traps around, but I was…
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Locked
6 AM in the middle of winter was a terribly dark and cold hour to be up and about but it was the only time Yusuf and his friend, Aaron, had to go to the gym. Going together made it harder to come up with excuses not to go and they’d been going together for…
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The Fall of Akumu: Chapter 4
Everything ached. No, that wasn’t true. Only Jelvaic’s right eye socket hurt but the pain was so immense that it seemed to fill his whole body. The usual aches and pains inherent with being a farmer were gone now, thanks to the surge of healing everyone experienced, leaving him with the pain in his empty…
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Across Lives Part 10
(Photo by Alfo Medeiros) The world had gone insane, Mel decided. In the year she had been gone, people had gone from being mostly rational to crazed fanatics. In all her lives she’d never seen anything like this. Sure, there were times when people had gone to war with one another and that was a…
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Unsung Chapter 9
A Hero must disannul any contract if it becomes apparent that success is no longer probable -Hero’s Guild Book of Rules Rule #3 Feral, Riven, and Skemm stood on the edge of their camp, looking out towards where the Western Realm’s armies were encamped. Smoke still rose steadily from that direction now; they weren’t trying…
Bridge of Broken Glass 