Issue 4 of the Parallel Serials is a milestone because Let the Beat Build by Wesley Livingston is the first serial to complete its run in our publication. As promised, Issue 4 is full of drama and hopefully it will be enough to bring you back on July 28, 2014 for Issue 5.
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This week:
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What can I say, the man is in over his head. There’s one thing the man needs to do very quickly, get right with his God.
It Exists Issue 4 (Amazing Elroy, The Magician Bk. 0): “The man knows the penalty for taking lives, it is sure damnation and the man knows that his soul will burn if he tries to keep his involvement in the explosion bottled up inside.”
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It’s Rebel Max, in the 21st and a Half Century! What happens once life as we know it comes to an end? Does Max move back to Ladoga? I bet he does. Find out in this week’s One-Shot.
Rebel Max in the 21st and Half Century: “By the year 2056, the coastal US will be uninhabitable by humans. The east coast will be ravaged by hurricanes and tropical storms that rain buckets and throws the ocean against coastal towns… The west coast will become a barren desert where no food can grow and irrigation will be impossible.”
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And in the present day, Max introduces you to a furniture maker. Ladoga has all kinds of people doesn’t it?
Selections from Rebel Max’s Journal (Vol. 1): Reinforcing Collapsible Furniture: “The first time I got a chance to really talk to Cassandra Taylor, she was sitting in her garage with the door open. She had a knife in her hand; it had a thick blade with mean serrations along the sharp side and came to a pointed tip. She was stripping a piece of wood that she told me she’d found in the woods behind her house. “
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The Legacy Series continues Emma (or The Artist). Riding the subway is a mixed bag. It can be magical and it can be horrible. Sadly for Emma, this week, it’s horrible
Emma (or The Artist) I (PRL Legacy Series): “The homeless man looked to have been sleeping on the seat across from Emma for a long time before she noticed him there. He looked as comfortable as a person can be on the hard plastic of the small subway seats.”
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It’s history folks. Here it is, the conclusion of Wesley Livingston’s Let the Beat Build!
Let the Beat Build (Part 4 of 4): “All of that preamble leads me to the most important reason that music matters so much to me. Permanence. In a fickle world where things are constantly changing, music seems to be a constant.”
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Ohh, it’s a metaphor. I get it now. Stone Hand is an archetype. I get it. But, wait, what’s up with the bug then?
Stone Hand (leaders and Leadership): “Nefarious creature with six uneven legs/ Three, four, five, and six/ Provide perfect balance/ Holding scale-giant thorax/ On needling sticks”
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The PRL Serials. You love us so much now, you’re going to tell your friends.
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