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Three Pulses to Down

I snapped back awake to the sound of fighting getting closer. Whatever it was, it was approaching the door quickly, and with …
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The Tattoo
I always enjoyed watching her get dressed in the morning. But today, something was bothering me. My eyes roved over her body,...
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Soka. Tapin. Yu. L'tal. Gural.
“Are you ready?” she asked me.
My first lesson in meditation. “Yes. I’m ready.”
“Okay,” she told me. “First, sit on your ma…
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The One Word That Won't Make You Dead
Interrogation was a lost art. Ever since Gorbachev, glasnost, and the general demise of all things Eastern, there had been …
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'Til Kingdom Come
Cowboy Jack, a long-haired, brown-bearded, Jesus-looking, chain-smoking, psychopathic-killer, rolled into town on his Harley …
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Cape of Perception
I’m waiting at the light and riding up to the crosswalk is someone wearing a cape.
Wait, a cape?
The street lights do not…
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Trapped [Escape Challenge]

Antique bookshelves line two walls of the musty office. Behind me, the door, before me, a nearly-bare wall. An empty desk fac…
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The Time Capsule (2)

The cylinder hissed as Darth Kirk unscrewed its lid. When Kirk lifted the lid off, a gust of wind from the canister brushed b…
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Substandard Seating

Daniel sighed as he read the paper. Why had he even bothered? He should’ve known she would respond that way, everyone else di…
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Drex Underground
Left to his own devices, Drex would have been out of the locked basement and up to street level again within minutes, before …
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Alex in Wonderland - Part 2

Oddly enough, the real treat in coming to Casa Grande was the men’s restroom. It hadn’t been touched since it was built and w…

