From the category archives:
7 September 2018 – Vancouver City State
On a chair in the middle of the low lit apartment, Galahad operated his hipcom without motion. Micro-Lynux was projected to his retinas via his hipcom shades, and the operation controls were remotely toggled by his mind, via a impulse-reading microchip implant. At his [...]
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Around 11:00 AM Tad stirred to the short staccato creak of the outer wooden door opening. Then steps on the metal floor of the Spam-Can (an entry defense unit), followed by a knock on the heavy door in a special rhythm he recognized. He climbed out of bed and checked [...]
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8 September 2018 – Yaletown – Vancouver City State
Charlie Stubblefield stood on the corner drinking a double espresso. The modern towers of Yaletown vaulted from the cement all around him, with a rare and magnificent blue sky as a backdrop. One building was only half constructed, its uppermost girders naked and rusting, it’s lower level windows boarded up. The developers no doubt, bankrupted in the Great Reckoning of 2010.
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The old steam clock standing on the corner of Cambie and Water streets read five minutes before eight. Money trotted past it, her knee-high black boots tapping a staccato rhythm on the cobblestone walkway. Her black dress clutched and concealed only the most delicious parts of her caramel-colored exterior. Over one bare shoulder [...]
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At first Oliver imagined just shutting his company down and taking off like the characters he always considered to be traitors in Atlas Shrugged. His fantasy went as follows… At 6:00 a.m. when the boys on day shift came into work, the gates were locked shut. A note was posted on the [...]
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18 September 2018 – Gastown – Vancouver
On Sunday morning, when the peoples of the world were worshiping their gods, the Liberty Lounge was packed with Freedom Engineers, who had a monk-like devotion to their highest reverence… Human Liberty. Engineers and Scouts filed into the Patriot Pub, closed to the public on these [...]
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Hong Kong Connection (HKC), a fastidious Chinese man, was the best resource in the city for any money movement into Hong Kong; Switzerland; or Alberta – the most recent tax-free haven. On his table stood [...]
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