Ailen watched the Rogue Agent leave with a quizzical expression. Having failed to destroy her, the only possible explanation could be fear.
Enjoying my stories? Why not toss me a little bit of cash on Ko-Fi?
Ailen watched the Rogue Agent leave with a quizzical expression. Having failed to destroy her, the only possible explanation could be fear.
Enjoying my stories? Why not toss me a little bit of cash on Ko-Fi?
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.
Enjoying my stories? Why not toss me a little bit of cash on Ko-Fi?
The moment lasted for an eternity, and in that half-second Ailen saw universes die in a flash of fire
Enjoying my stories? Why not toss me a little bit of cash on Ko-Fi?
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.
Enjoying my stories? Why not toss me a little bit of cash on Ko-Fi?
The whole precinct had turned crimson, as the first sign. As the second sign, the whole thing shuddered as if a train had crashed into the front door. It wasn’t a train. It was only a bomb.
The dark-gold nectar poured slow, like syrup, but didn’t smell like anything Folie had ever smelled before. She swished it in the old glass and looked through it at the bartender, bent out of shape by the light’s sudden deceleration in the thick liquid.
He flipped open the cylinder of his Coca-Cola Magnum .44. Two shots left. Goddammit. He would have to make them count. Concrete spat from the wall by his head as a fresh hail of bullets came his way.
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.
Also, I started a Ko-Fi! If you want to, you could use it to send me a tip to ease the sting of my inevitable mental degradation over the course of this project: Ko-fi.com/charlieplumb
They had made camp in the midst of a rock formation that rose up on all sides of them but for a narrow pass that opened out into a circular space.
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…