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Path Through the MudKyle McKenzie sat at his desk and looked at the screen and tried to understand why he could not stop thinking about the smell. It was a specific smell. Wet dirt and diesel and something sweet underneath that he could not identify at the time. He was in Baghdad, 2004, and the smell had come from a drainage culvert on the edge of the city, and when his squad leader had told him to check it out,...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 ReviewsPlease log in to like, share and comment!
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The Patient from BelowThe voice started on a Tuesday, in the basement of Dr. Edward Blackwood's clinic in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. Eddie was fifteen, brilliant and troubled in equal measure, and he had spent the last three years sitting on his father's examination table while his father examined other people's minds. His father was sitting in his armchair, conducting what should have been a routine session...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Dust CleanerThe job was simple: "Urban Sanitation." That was the corporate term for erasing the remnants of failed social experiments. Jack stood in the center of a penthouse in the Upper East Side, wearing a grey jumpsuit and carrying a high-frequency dissolution wand. He didn't care about the architecture or the art. To him, a million-dollar painting was just a collection of carbon and pigment that...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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V-03-铁笼星辰-202606011542The rain on Station Sigma-7 smelled like ozone and old whiskey. Vincent Cross sat at his desk in the lower corridors of the space station, staring at a half-empty glass of something that used to be bourbon but had been sitting open for three days, and a typewriter whose spacebar stuck every fourth keystroke. He was forty-two years old. He had been a journalist once—a real journalist, at the LA...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Species SacrificeThe exodus was a river of steel and light. Ten thousand colony ships, each a floating city, were leaving the dying embers of Earth for the promise of the Centauri Reach. It was the greatest migration in history, a triumph of the human spirit over a ruined world. I was the High Executor. My duty was the 'Genetic Culling.' The Guardians, the architects of the migration, had decreed that the ships...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Double Life of Thomas VanceThomas Vance opened the bookshop at nine in the morning and he closed it at six in the evening and he did exactly the same thing every day for three years. He straightened the books. He wiped the counter. He drank tea from a cup that said World's Best Bookseller in letters that were chipped and fading. He watched the people walk past the window and he thought about nothing. This was exactly...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The man in the gray suitThe rain was falling on Los Angeles the way it always fell—hard, indifferent, with the kind of persistence that suggested the city was being punished for something it couldn't remember doing. Thomas Gray watched it from the window of his office on Sunset Boulevard, drinking coffee from a paper cup that had gone cold twenty minutes ago. His office was exactly what you would expect from a private...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Patient from BelowDr. Evelyn Blackwood had been treating soldiers for fourteen months when she began to suspect that the war was happening inside their heads. The facility was a converted country estate outside New Carthage, all white corridors and padded rooms and the faint smell of carbolic and iodine. It housed the military's most difficult cases: men and women who had been brought back from the front lines...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Keeper of Blackwood HallACT I: THE ASCENT The fog that clung to Blackwood Hall was not merely weather; it was a presence, a living thing that seeped through the cracks in the stone and settled in the bones of those who remained within its walls. Arthur Blackwood stood at the window of his study, watching the gas lamps flicker along the street below, their amber halos dissolving into the London smog like dying stars....0 Comments 0 Shares 4 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 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The House of DustThe Blackwood estate did not just sit on the land of the American South; it seemed to be sinking into it. The columns were cracked, the ivy had strangled the balconies, and the air always tasted of damp earth and old secrets. Colonel Silas Blackwood, the last of his line, lived in the center of this decay, a man who clung to the ghost of a Southern aristocracy that had died a century ago. Beau,...0 Comments 0 Shares 8 Views 0 Reviews
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The Phoenix SpecimenThe salon was in a townhouse on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, and it was exactly the kind of place Julian Ashworth had been born to inhabit. Crystal chandeliers cast light over marble floors. Women in silk dresses moved through rooms filled with paintings, sculptures, and the kind of furniture that cost more than most people earned in a lifetime. Men in tailcoat jackets discussed art,...0 Comments 0 Shares 8 Views 0 Reviews
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