From the category archives:
Autumn 2016 – New American Republic
A dirty pickup rolled to a stop where the trail met a gravel road. A curtain of dust continued past on Wyoming’s wind. An unknown cowboy stepped out of the truck. He was followed by a lean and dusty dog named ‘Dog’.
The cowboy walked down the ditch [...]
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20 March 2011 – Ratchet’s Letters to Mike
My son Blake was twice the man that I was. Saying those words to Susan was impossible. She just knew. I’m on the edge of insanity, Mike. At times I imagine this war is just a first person shooter game. Riffle ejects the round, rumbles like a game controller. I [...]
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Autumn 2018 – Vancouver City State – City Hall
“No Sir, I don’t think they’ll ‘volunteer’ to pay taxes, Sir.” Walter Newman the OEIF special advisor on Catallaxia explained. “Evading taxes and circumventing government laws is the whole point of Catallaxia, Sir.”
“I need taxes!” whined Hue Georifice. ”My economic advisor is learned in [...]
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Triumph and Lucy arrived at the residence of Jimmy Hung, the notorious slum lord. Hung owned 18 apartment buildings on the east side. His own home was tidy but modest. Jimmy’s proficient wife, Kim, made green tea. Several grubby and spirited grandkids ran through the kitchen, the smallest stopped to ask [...]
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Autumn – 2018 – Capital Hill – North Burnaby
Conlin the Swordsman sat in his strong-johns, polishing the pagan crest on his battle shield. Incognito jogged on the treadmill. Hedonis read The Real Lincoln while waiting for Hector to place his blue armies on the Risk board. Hector deliberated, then placed all [...]
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‘Clean Dishes are a Value to Trade’ advocated a sign on the wall behind the spray nozzle trough.
After a few days working as the pot scrubber in the dish pit at Hero’s Pub, Cameron Yonkey had caught on to one unfaltering fact… if he placed an unclean dish on the clean [...]
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4:00 AM October 21, 2018 – Vancouver – Chinatown
12 members of the Bludgeon Squad entered a rundown apartment building without warrant or evidence of any real crime, and ascend the stairs. Seven stories above, Tad Galahad [...]
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Had the authorities asked the property owner for permission to raid his building, he may have told them what he knew about the strange additions Galahad had made to his top corner of the [...]
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