Death to the Empire! Chapter Three

The mystery kept growing. Not only a secret facility, a decades-old secret facility. Not only a decades-old secret facility, a decades-old Imperial secret facility. Not only a decades-old Imperial secret facility, but one that knew her name.

Chapter Three

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Death to the Empire! Chapter One

The sky was filled with brilliant fire that illuminated the churning battlefield in blues and greens. Ailen stumbled in the mud, shielding her eyes from the light, and fell flat on her face as the tell-tale vzz of a plasma rifle flew right through the space her head had been. She struggled against the sucking mud, and the storm cannon fired again, flashing cerulean over a blackened, grinning skull in front of her.

Chapter One

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The Coca-Cola Enforcement Squad: Case One

My name’s Mathis; I’m with the Coca-Cola Enforcement Squad. That’s Detective Sergeant Mathis to you. It’s my job to keep the Company safe from the scum of the earth who might damage its bottom line. The way this case started out, it made me sick.

Case One

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Planet of the Sorcerer: Chapter Fifteen

Their escape through the furnace level was more fraught than anticipated. “There they are!” Luna heard the woman who had guided them to the Library level yell. She must have had some idea of revenge in her heart all along. Luna wondered if it made a difference that Vich-Clac wasn’t actually there with them.
It didn’t matter now, of course, that the gold-uniformed Magistrates were on their tail. Before they turned and ran, Luna noticed that the pursuers were brandishing pistols in their left hands. They looked like early-model revolvers. She had seen one in a museum once, that she’d been robbing. Killed by a museum piece… didn’t bear thinking about…

Chapter Fifteen