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Criticality 2: Feat of Fury
Initially, that scene at the Ennead Building was not worth revisiting. It was quite possibly the most dangerous…
Excerpt: Folded Deck
When I returned after your death I knew when you visited - you left helpful signs, but we knew you would. Usually…
Excerpt: Custodian
NINETY BILLION SOULS - Local time: 21.02 hours.
Excerpt: Custodian: Miss Asalah Al Faghori is one of Oxford…
The Sleeping Witness
The Sleeping Witness
So often, are you as a blazing torch with flames of burning rags falling about you flaming,…
The Hole
Bone-Cracker roused to darkness and pain. Disoriented, he tried to remember where he was and why, but shock…
Lady Justice and the Assassin
Lady Justice and the Assassin
CHAPTER 3
The old warehouse in the West Bottoms had once been a small manufacturing…
Criticality 1: Hostage Situation (Series Premiere)
Only a seemingly frail hand was exposed from underneath a heavy cotton blanket. Pete Rogue did not even make time…
Rat Incense
This story is from the Nightmare Book. The nightmare was described by the Troll Queen Shadowtrollia in her personal…
The Apocalyptic Comet
Apocalyptic Comet: After fourteen years without a single drop, it finally rains torrents as it will never stop.…
Gift In The Waves
To help spread awareness on the effects of bullying on its victims and in support of the movement to end bullying,…
A Science Fair
The brain holds folder after folder of information from our past, and as a writer we pick and choose what may…
Destruction of Friendship
Destruction of Friendship
The drops melted off her skin and into a creamsicle puddle on page forty-two of her…
DIVA: A Demented Stalker, a Sexy Flutist, and Murder!
DIVA
Music, sexual obsession and murder in New Orleans: DIVA, #2 in the Frank Renzi mystery series.Beautiful…
Angular Trifecta 52: Inverse eBookend (Season One Finale)
This coordinated implosion of the ground was much more for show because neither Janette nor Burdlit had felt its…
Intro: Custodian
Custodian
In a recent post about his forthcoming Custodian novel, free planet author Mike Philbin writes:"One…