The Time of CHAOS
(Pre-Hyperion)
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What is fear to the perpetually traumatized? If each new day brings the guarantee of pain, of everything that the worst monster is capable of inflicting, then what need is there for fear? There is only anticipation for the worst, experiencing traumatic pain, and numbing. Even fear has its limits.
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Tonight:
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Silas is back and living the hard life in the Nights of Illuminatos. The last time we saw him, the spores were spreading and the Alia from Hell promised to bring Hell to Earth. Hell is here, dear readers.
Silas in Hell: “There hasn’t been a Halloween party in two years, not since Illuminatos opened up and changed the world. Since then, Silas’s affluent neighborhood has been on lockdown, like the entire cul-de-sac of Mcmansions are under strict quarantine. Of course there is no way to quarantine from the spores of Illuminatos and many families went crazy behind the barricades on their windows and doors and victimized one another. In many ways, Silas’ neighborhood is the exact opposite of most of the world at large where people victimize random strangers and roam the streets looking for violence, making travel alone unsafe.”
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The planet Wiis is home to the Rhadswiis, a female-centric civilization with many physical characteristics that are similar to humans of Earth. The Rhadswiis also tell scary stories in the dark and it seems that the monsters in the dark are very real on Wiis.
The D- of Rhasdwiis: “Unlike the homo sapiens of Earth that seem to be the culmination of many prehistoric species that intermingled, the femina cogitandi reached a point in the span of their time on Wiis when they gave rise to other species that were similar with variations.”
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It’s almost election day. Vote early if you can, but it’s only three days away. I don’t want to go off on any tangents, but I will say that the most horror-inducing anxiety that I’ve experienced this year has been related to the on-going pandemic and politics, so for me, a story about voting seems very appropriate. VIV is back! And she’s bringing us a story from the 1956 election, an era when black people were denied their right to vote. Today, we meet a group of black people determined to buck that unfair system.
The Jellybean Counters: “You would put yourself through all this trouble, just to vote for Ike? In Monroe? Like every other person casting a vote ain’t voting for that democrat. Like your one vote would mean anything in all that. You know how the election work?”
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