We are back and Halloween is a couple days away. Tonight, we present the conclusion of the Halloween Special, as well as the continuations of three Vol. II staples. I’ve been watching the news alot lately, and it’s mostly dominated by stories about the coming election. Between updates on Clinton’s emails, Trump’s general douchebaggery, and the possibility of election rigging, there are many heart-wrenching stories of displaced people who are forced to flee their homes as war ravages their backyards. I can’t think of anything more frightening than a war at home and being forced to abandon all of my comforts just so I can live to see another day in a foreign place that does not want me because of the possibility that I could be bringing war into someone else’s backyard. I am a 30 year old single male. If I were Syrian and needed to flee the conflict there, I would have an impossible time. No country wants a single male from the middle east coming into their country for fear that they are members of ISIS coming to blow things up. The stories we present tonight are meant to be horror for entertainment’s sake, but there are truly unimaginable, unspeakable horrors unfolding everyday around the globe and I have to express my sincere gratitude that I am able to spend a Saturday making up twisted stories to be festive for a holiday. I wish men like me all around the world could have the same levity.
That was a bit of downer, but I’ve been skulking around lately because of the ongoing pain in my mouth from a tooth extraction and my general perception that 2016 has been a truly crappy year for me. But it really hasn’t been that bad and I needed to remind myself that I should feel very fortunate for the things that I do have, not regretful for things that I potentially lost.
Enjoy the fiction, people, we enjoy writing it and the escape it affords. We are 4 Issues away from the end (I bet you never thought it was coming), and we will be back soon to conclude Vol. II with a bang!
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This week:
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Dr. Cousins is searching for answers. It seems that the pressures of the IBF basement are starting to get to him.
Made in America (Series 1): “Moss isn’t the same person that she was when we first came here. She’s discounting the things that Alia was saying about you as crazy ramblings. Before we came here, she was much more compassionate. It makes no sense that she’d be dismissing this out of hand, especially with you here.”
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Kevin has his head down and he is ready to be the righteous hand of justice. It’s about time that he has a good result, the man has earned it.
The Magician (Amazing Elroy, The Magician Bk. 1): “Kevin does not meet Alia when she first comes to the facility. Not even when the colonel gives him a mission based on intel from the woman’s ability. Kevin doesn’t really care to meet her. He is mostly eager to get back into the good graces of his superiors and he listens earnestly as the colonel outlines the mission.”
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Clay is back and he just can’t fight that feeling anymore. Almost dying really puts things into perspective.
Diode (One-Shots) “He should be dead but he isn’t. He remembers the face of the woman who almost made it impossible for him to ever see Ivan again, and suddenly his confusion is replaced by a need for vengeance and he storms into his house to throw away his shirt and replace it with one that was not evidence that he had been murdered at his own home. When he is changed, he storms out of his front door to the home of the drug dealer/purveyor of prostitution where he hopes to find the woman who had shot him. He doesn’t think about what he will do once he finds her and when he is about to cross the street, he stops. This isn’t important, he thinks. This doesn’t matter.”
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Silas can’t stay away. He is a like a magnet and hell is metal that draws him when he sleeps. What happens if he tries to stay away?
Silas in Hell: “You’ve been avoiding me! For days now, I’ve been waiting for you, the saint has been waiting for you, and you’ve been killing yourself to stay awake! You ungrateful ingrate, after all we have done for you, you would just ignore? Well, you’re here now I guess. So we can get on with it. And it’s not so bad you coward. You’ve seen the worst of it. The saint just has some parting words.”
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Another clown story and another instance of the dark forces stirring the pot and controlling people in ways they can’t even fathom. It would be fascinating if it weren’t so creepy.
Illuminatos (Clown Stories): “Recently, police in a small suburb of Charlotte, NC discovered the aftermath of a massacre underneath a bridge. The body parts of five homeless men and women were strewn haphazardly in pools and trails of blood. It only seemed haphazard to the untrained eye, but the body parts and blood had actually been arranged into the sign of the Angled One.”
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Bradley is loving his life and waiting impatiently to have his mansion all to himself. But all good things come to an end. Even things that aren’t actually good.
The Black Side of Paradise: “What makes a man capable of empathy? Is it something that we acquire at birth? Or are there experiences in life that teach us that there is a benefit to acknowledging the feelings of others? Bradley was not a sociopath, or he had never been diagnosed as such, but all of his life he had struggled to care if his actions had adverse consequences on someone else. He had always thought of his life as a track leading him to acclaim, influence, and wealth beyond the imaginations of the family that he had left before arriving at the Farnsworth mansion. It’s hard to know why this was the case for Bradley and it is very likely that he was a sociopath and he never felt guilty using others to achieve his own aims.”
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It’s the PRL Serials Volume II! Check out the PRL Serials website for the PDF Issues and other interesting things to read and enjoy. See you next week!
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