A thick fog rolled off the Pacific and over the docks and railway yards along the waterfront. An old man and a young girl walked through it, fearless and quiet like a pair of wolves in [...]
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4. Free Agents
Mr. Black fit right in at the internet cafe on Granville Street. He wasn’t a 22 year old leftist sociology student, but he dressed the part and drank fat-free lattes. He tapped out an email [...]
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On the lip of the Pacific you can smell her breath, feel her tongue on your skin. Through the thick mists of November she beckons you. Her cool body stretched out onto the miles [...]
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3:30 AM – Hector was approaching the coordinates which Mr. Black had given him; 49 Degrees 16′38.56 N 123 Degrees 12′59.95 W -.Jericho Beach. A quarter of a mile down the beach was a [...]
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Down below a tall, taut brunette addressed the four new passengers. She stood on a crate of Barrett M107 Rifles, not the only big guns present… Ba-dum-bum-Ch! Her dark [...]
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The White’s Revenge ascended from the depths ten miles off of Africa’s Horn and cruised toward the settlement of Peace Prosper on the Hafun Peninsula. Boris and his wayward mistress encouraged the knights to join them up top to take in the view.
They leaned on the railing and enjoyed [...]
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Hedonis woke up to the sound of a pounding door in a pounding head. He looked at his watch. “Christ.” He pulled his arm out from under a Ukrainian… and his leg from under a [...]
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“Mr. Liezick?”
Ben Woods mentally commanded the eye-screens to shut down and looked through the lenses of his Hip-Com shades upon the sweet young stewardess.
“Yes, Delaine?”
“Would you like another drink, Sir?”
“Yes, thank you.”
She must have seen him tip up and empty his [...]
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Lysander stood on the platform, leaning on the rail of the Peace Prosper Observatory, looking out at the Indian Ocean. Now 20 feet above what was previously the highest point on the peninsula, the view [...]
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Chase Alexander was a decorated Vietnam war hero. God allegedly created the earth in four days and four nights, but in the same time frame, in 1967, (and in reality), one mortal man positioned [...]
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Cameron Yonkey was summoned back to London OEIF headquarters. He was irate that it was Lincoln, not himself, who was allowed to stay on the Galahad stakeout in Vancouver City State. Arbor enjoyed it that Yonkey [...]
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Marco Polo had concluded long ago that being around young people helped keep him young. These last few weeks with sprightly Adina were invigorating. They road the rails from Vancouver to Panama City via Montana, Wyoming, [...]
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Tad waited in Build Room #2 for a build to show. He studied Joy standing on his table, she reminded him of Smashing just a short time ago. Money entered [...]
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