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The Velvet Shadow(Paranormal Romance Variation) Clara lived in a house that breathed. It was an old Victorian estate on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall, where the wind howled like a wounded animal and the sea crashed against the rocks with a rhythmic, violent hunger. Clara was a restoration artist, spending her days breathing life back into faded canvases, but her nights were spent in the company of a ghost....0 Comments 0 Shares 21 Views 0 Reviews
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The Silence of the Neon Rain(Neo-Pulp Variation) The rain in New Vegas didn't just fall; it dissolved. It was a chemical slurry that tasted of ozone and old copper, turning the neon glare of the Strip into a smeared, psychedelic watercolor. Elias Thorne sat in a booth at 'The Rusty Bolt', a dive bar where the air was thick with the smell of synthetic tobacco and desperation. He was a man of precise habits and an imprecise...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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The Blank PageJack Morrison came back from the Pacific with a medal he did not want and a head full of things he could not unsee. Los Angeles in 1945 was a city of people running from something. The war was over, but the people who had been to the war had not finished running. They came to L.A. looking for sunshine and found a different kind of heat — the kind that sat on your chest and made you sweat...0 Comments 0 Shares 72 Views 0 Reviews
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The Man Who Listened to the Stars**Youngstown, Ohio** The garage smelled like motor oil and old beer. Frank Miller sat on a milk crate in the corner, listening to static through headphones that had a crack in the left earcup. The telescope was pointed at Cygnus. It always was. He'd been pointing it at Cygnus for seven years. Seven years of static. He took a drink from a beer can. The beer was warm. It always was. He didn't...0 Comments 0 Shares 73 Views 0 Reviews
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The Glass HorizonThe city of Neo-Kyoto was a forest of obsidian and light, where the rain fell in rhythmic pulses and the wind smelled of ozone and old ink. In the shadow of the Great Spire, where the corporate lords lived in floating gardens, Julian lived in the "Under-City," a labyrinth of neon alleys and steam-filled vents. He was a "Memory-Sculptor," a technician who could prune the traumas of the wealthy,...0 Comments 0 Shares 48 Views 0 Reviews
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Last Chance for JusticeA Victorian Gothic Tale When an innocent man faces execution, desperate measures are required to halt the machinery of death. The investigator must decode cryptic clues left by the condemned while racing against time, proving that justice delayed becomes justice denied. The investigation began on a morning when fog clung to the streets like a shroud. Inspector Jonathan Blackwell arrived at the...0 Comments 0 Shares 50 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and MagnoliasThe Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks along Cypress Lane did not sway so much as it hung, like laundry left to dry on a line that had not been pulled in thirty years. Bell Thorne stood on the porch of the house that had been her family's for four generations and watched the rain fall in sheets that turned the dirt road into a river, and she thought about how water, left long enough, could...0 Comments 0 Shares 52 Views 0 Reviews
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The First Migratory BirdDr. Julian Ashford's hands did not shake. They had stopped shaking three years ago, in a field hospital outside Verdun, when the morphine ran out and he had to operate on a boy of nineteen with a shell fragment in his abdomen and a mother's voice echoing in his head in a language his mother didn't even speak. His hands were steady now. Surgeon's hands. Precise. Scarred. The kind of hands that...0 Comments 0 Shares 39 Views 0 Reviews
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The Obsidian BondIn the neon-drenched sprawl of San Junipero, where the rain tasted of copper and the skyscrapers were laced with holographic vines, Julian lived in the "Low-Light"—the subterranean layers of the city where the sunlight was a paid subscription and the law was a suggestion. He was a "Splicer," a black-market surgeon who could weave synthetic nerves into organic flesh, turning broken people into...0 Comments 0 Shares 32 Views 0 Reviews