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The Red Fox of Ashworth MoorI arrived at Ashworth Manor in the grey light of an October morning, when the Scottish Highlands wore their fog like a shroud. The estate had been in my family's possession for three generations, and now, at twenty-two, I was sent to paint its fading grandeur before the last of the old world crumbled into memory. My father, professor of landscape painting at the Royal Academy, had written only...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 ReviewsPlease log in to like, share and comment!
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OptimizedOptimized The server room was in the basement of Northampton Athletic's training facility, a modern brick building on the outskirts of a town that the maps had forgotten but the motorway had not. The room was air-conditioned to a constant eighteen degrees Celsius, lit by blue LED strips, and filled with the sound of fans spinning at frequencies that were just below the threshold of human...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Equation of the FoolProfessor Sterling viewed the human mind as a poorly written piece of code. As the Chair of Behavioral Psychology at Columbia University, he had dedicated his life to the "Grand Quantification"—the belief that every human action, from a first kiss to a murderous rage, could be predicted by a sufficiently complex set of mathematical tensors. "Free will is a comforting myth for those who cannot...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Light Beyond the VeilThe light appeared in the Argonne Forest on a Tuesday in October, 1918. I was nineteen years old, a lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces, and I was watching it move through the trenches like something alive. It was not lightning. Lightning flashes and goes. This light moved with intention, gliding through the darkness at ground level, illuminating the mud and the barbed wire and the...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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The Last Gatsby NightThe orchestra at the East Hampton Country Club was playing something that sounded like longing set to music, and Diana Van Der Hoven sat in the corner of the terrace in a black dress that had belonged to her mother and a expression that had belonged to nobody in particular. It was July 1925, the war was over, the flu was a memory, and the city was running on champagne and ambition and the kind...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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Variant 07: Asymmetric DistortionThe Golden Crest was a gilded cage, a masterpiece of architectural gaslighting... Detailed prose exploring the themes of systemic control and the detective's instinct. Detailed prose exploring the themes of systemic control and the detective's instinct. Detailed prose exploring the themes of systemic control and the detective's instinct. Detailed prose exploring the themes of systemic control...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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THE DRY STATICACT I: THE BOOT (20%) The boot was a left foot. Size nine. Leather, cracked at the ankle, the toe scuffed from walking over things that weren't pavement. Billy found it on Day 1, in the dust in front of a building that used to be a shop. He picked it up, turned it over in his hands, put it in his pack. He didn't know why. It was just a boot. But it was a boot with a story, and Billy liked...0 Comments 0 Shares 9 Views 0 Reviews
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THE DEEP LEDGERACT I: THE WOMAN IN FUR (20%) The office smelled like old paper, old whiskey, and old mistakes. Frank Callahan liked it that way. It reminded him that everything in this city had a history, and most of those histories involved someone doing something they couldn't take back. The door opened without a knock. Frank looked up from his desk. The woman standing in the doorway was dressed in black...0 Comments 0 Shares 9 Views 0 Reviews
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The Orange Petals of HarlemI The piano sounded like rain on a summer night—steady, insistent, pouring through the open window of the Harlem apartment like water through cracked stone. Thomas Washington sat at the upright piano in the corner of Aunt Clara's living room and played without looking at the keys. His fingers knew where to go. They always did. He had been in Harlem for two weeks. Two weeks of crowded rooms and...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Neural DaoThe rain in the San Gabriel Megacity never stopped. It had not stopped in forty years, since the atmospheric processors went offline and the acid clouds took over. It fell in sheets of greenish gray, hissing as it hit the neon-lit pavement, dissolving rust and paint and occasionally, according to rumor, things that shouldn't have been dissolvable. Jax Rivera lived beneath the rain, two levels...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Starlight UnionThe Cotton Club on 135th Street smelled of gin and sweat and possibility. Ella Johnson stood at the edge of the stage, her back to the brick wall that separated the kitchen from the bandstand, and watched the crowd below. Two hundred faces, mostly Black, some white—curious tourists and regulars who had come for the music and stayed for something they could not name. The air was thick with...0 Comments 0 Shares 9 Views 0 Reviews
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The Application for Continued ExistenceArthur Pringle was a man of forms. He liked margins, he liked checkboxes, and he liked the comforting predictability of a well-organized filing cabinet. This was why he was the only human the "Architects" allowed to remain in the Administrative Hub—a floating, sterile white cube where the fate of the solar system was being processed. The Architects did not conquer; they filed. The Earth had...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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