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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 5 –
*** Just put the guns down and go home. Violette says exasperated. Just tell me where the safe is and I’ll let you both walk away from this alive. Freda is not her normal self, the high stakes she finds herself in have her adrenaline pumping. Freda, this ain’t like you… Esther tries. Don’t! Stop!…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 4 –
4. “This is a go to hell free card, I know it.” Jerry was upset as he swiped the Bible from the motel room where his friend Trevor held the door open while keeping a lookout for anyone coming. “Come on!” Trevor said with urgency. He was not the same young man that he had…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 3 –
*** Violette moves toward the light before answering Esther. She doesn’t know where they are, only that they are in the part of the city that has been long forgotten by industry. The neighborhood where they skulk the darkness had at one time boomed with textile manufacturing, now it is mostly filled with abandoned buildings…
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*** Violette practically pushes Esther to shuffle faster down the dim corridor. She can hear the voice behind them getting closer, though it js still far away; the two have been making their way in the narrow corridor for some time. I can’t go any faster. Esther says, stumbling over her left foot that leads…
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*** Don’t touch me! I’m not trying to touch you! If I could avoid it, I would, believe me. Back up then! You’re right up on me. Esther and Violette are making their way through darkness. It is very late at night, the only light is faint and far off, showing the thin width of…
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The Magician 12. Busting Out
“I won’t do another mission for the CIA.” Kevin says to Anish. “I want to leave this place.” Anish nods. “I get that.” “You were right. It didn’t take them long to take advantage of my ability to violate people’s rights. And that’s not as bad as accidentally killing people, but it’s not great either.…
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Issue 12, Vol. II – November 18, 2016
We started Volume II more than a year ago, in the summer of 2015. I have to accept blame for the delays, but what does that matter right now? All that matters is that we have come to the end of another Volume of the Parallel Serials, home of big stories told in small pieces.…
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The Magician 11. Taking a Stand
Anish has worked for the CIA for many years. She originally moved to Seattle just out of university and she was recruited by the CIA to help with covert operations in conjunction with a Canadian agency. She agreed to help because the case involved the sex trafficking of native minors and she was eager to…
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Issue 11, Vol. II – November 17, 2016
Yep, here we are again, spamming your email or notifications or whatever. It’s cold outside, and we’ve got something for you to read while you sip hot chocolate and watch the leaves fall. So, it’s been a couple weeks since I got my tooth pulled and things are healing nicely. I’m eating like normal again,…
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The Magician 10. Robo-Kevin
Kevin sits on the bed in his sterile white room for hours without interruption as he combs through the information from the colonel. The potential riot in CA is being stoked by a loose association of individuals outraged by election results and though the initial protest was designed to be peaceful, there are those who…