-
165 المنشورات
-
0 الصور
-
0 الفيديوهات
-
Female
-
06/11/1968
-
متابَع بواسطة 0 أشخاص
التحديثات الأخيرة
-
Sample V-11: The Velvet Prison(Act I: The Spark) The Castle of Oakhaven sat on a cliff overlooking a churning, black sea. The Young Heir, Julian, was a lonely boy trapped in a world of rigid expectations and cold stone. Then came The Tutor, a man of enigmatic grace and a voice that sounded like a cello. The Tutor didn't just teach Julian Latin and Greek; he taught him about the hidden desires of the heart and the beauty of...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 1 مشاهدة 0 معاينةالرجاء تسجيل الدخول , للأعجاب والمشاركة والتعليق على هذا!
-
The Texture of TruthThe first thing Edward noticed about the 23rd century was the smell. Or rather, the lack of it. The world of the Lattice smelled of nothing. It was a vacuum of scent, a sterile void where the air was filtered and the emotions were managed. In 2043, Edward's world had been a tapestry of smells: the metallic tang of rain on pavement, the dusty aroma of old libraries, the sharp scent of fear and...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 4 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
The Body Does Not Know Its Own CellsSamir Qureshi first understood what was happening to him not in a meeting, not in a confrontation, but in the silence after a question that went unanswered. He was standing in the Humanities building atrium, a sandstone-floored rotunda that caught the October light like a bell jar, when Ellen from the third floor walked past and said hello to the man behind him. The man behind him smiled and...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 3 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
Both Signals, Both Silences, Both TrueOn the sixty-third day of polar night, Dr. Soren Nystrom decided he would no longer try to determine which of the two explanations was correct. He wrote this decision in his field notebook at 0347 hours, local time, by the light of a single LED headlamp, while the aurora borealis twisted green and violet across the sky outside the station's single south-facing window. His handwriting was...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 4 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
Beneath the MagnoliaBeneath the Magnolia Act I The magnolia garden was dead. Rosie knew this the way she knew her own name — not with the certainty of someone who had seen the death, but with the certainty of someone who was living inside it. The trees had been beautiful once, in some lifetime she had not been part of. Their white flowers had opened in May like small, perfect hands reaching up from the branches....0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 4 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
What the Commission Entered Into EvidenceThe hearing room was on the third floor of a building in Geneva that had been designed to make you feel small—high ceilings, tall windows that admitted light but not warmth, a long table behind which three commissioners sat with their faces arranged in expressions of judicial neutrality. It was March 1983. Rose O'Connor was forty-five. She had not expected to be here, but then she had not...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 4 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
The House of Hollow LaughterThe Last Goodbye The postcard came on a Thursday. It was postmarked from Mexicali, Mexico, and bore the familiar handwriting of a man I hadn't spoken to in seven years. Danny Rossi. I turned it over in my hands like a card in a poker game I didn't want to play but couldn't refuse to sit at. The front showed a picture of a desert landscape—brown hills, blue sky, a road that stretched off into...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 4 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
The Delacroix Manor had been beautiful once. Pearl could see it in the way the cShe stood on the front porch—which sagged perceptibly under her weight—and watched a heron wade through the overgrown duck pond that had once been a formal garden. Everything in Charleston was either falling apart or pretending not to. Pearl preferred the ones that were honest about it. "Miss Pearl!" Mrs. Gable's voice drifted from next door, shrill as a kettle. "You there?" "Born here,...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 7 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
The Bio-HierarchyThe city of Neo-York was a vertical empire. At the top, in the floating spires of the Aether-District, lived the "Optimized"—people whose DNA had been edited into masterpieces of health and beauty. At the bottom, in the smog-choked alleys of the Sump, lived the "Naturals"—the biological leftovers, plagued by cancers, dementia, and the slow rot of unplanned evolution. Director Thorne sat in his...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 7 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
The Long Goodbye, No. 2The Long Goodbye, No. 2 Act I The bus from the Lower Ninth Ward to St. Olga's Academy smelled of sweat and old tobacco and damp canvas. Clementine Thibodeaux sat near the back with a cloth bundle on her lap. The air conditioning had broken two stops ago. The woman across from her fanned herself with a church bulletin. The driver ran the route in silence, his hands on the wheel, his eyes on...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 2 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
GroundwaterThe pipe broke at 3:17 in the morning on a Wednesday in October, and Lisa Vasquez was the third person called. The first two -- the night crew supervisor and the on-call maintenance manager -- had told her about it over the phone, their voices slurred with sleep and irritation. By the time Lisa arrived at the break site on East Sixteenth Street, a section of main had burst and water was pouring...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 7 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
-
The Observer in the AtticI see the world in frequencies. To the humans, I am just a cat with an unfortunate genetic glitch—three tails that twitch in a rhythm they cannot understand. To Elias, I am Muse. Elias is a translator of dead languages, a man who spends his days in a dusty attic in Upper East Side, turning ancient scripts into modern English. He is a man of profound silence, his life a series of footnotes. I...0 التعليقات 0 المشاركات 9 مشاهدة 0 معاينة
المزيد من المنشورات