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Further Ascension – Issue 11 – Breakout
The only way to sneak aboard the Interstellar Panel headquarters spacecraft, is to avoid the perimeter sensors that are capable of detecting a ship as small as a two-door sedan on Earth. Whadgaf knows about IP headquarters security because she did a brief tour of duty there shortly after she joined the Ointite Independent Militia.…
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When the Dead Die – Issue 23 – One Step Forward and Two Back
Time to think is difficult. Loss is difficult. Losing a loved one can be agony. Wendy’s mind was filled with thoughts of her Great uncle, how she could reverse Tin’s consumption of his spirit, if it was even possible. The incantations in Tin’s mind were so strange and haunting. They felt familiar, she could almost…
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Old Man Young and the Con Man’s Daughter – Issue 14 – Game Changer
“You’re a ghost?” Falon asks with a look of utter shock on her face. There is a young girl standing in front of her, no more than fifteen, and she looks like a normal person, but Falon can see that the boundaries of the girl’s body are blurry like she doesn’t have a solid form. …
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Old Man Young (2020 Annual) – Issue 3 –
The summer term at the local community college was well attended and Sandra was surprised at how easily she made friends with the other students who could have been her children. She signed up for a remedial math class because it had been years since she had to solve a word problem, and she also…
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Old Man Young and the Con Man’s Daughter – Issue 13 – The Girl and the Woman
“You know what they do at this place? Yuri tell you that?” Paul asks as he drives through rural Durham, North Carolina. Falon is in the passenger’s seat and she nods while she looks at the scenery passing by through the window. Adam and Manuel are asleep in the backseat. “They make monsters,” she says…
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Further Ascension – Issue 10 – Proper Function
Maria’s head is pounding and she sits in the food preparation and dining area of the large room where she and her friends are staying to await the reopen of the IP-area warpways. She’s never been a heavy drinker and hangovers were the stuff of TV shows on Earth, but now, every loud noise she…
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When the Dead Die – Issue 22 – Lose Some
As Wendy flew the distance from the CZS in Durham, North Carolina, to her home in Georgia, her heart was figuratively breaking and she felt a sadness, an enormous loss. She hadn’t actually flown, she was flung from the area by Isheanesu’s incantation, and she moved through the air with her back to her destination…
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Old Man Young and the Con Man’s Daughter – Issue 12 – Confirmation
“You trust him?” Sandra asks. She and Paul sit on the covered front porch of Paul’s house; Sandra at a square card table with an open book and notebook that she takes notes into as she reads, and Paul slowly rocking back and forth in a rocking chair. It is early and Sandra is reviewing…
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Further Ascension – Issue 9 – The Short Night
Before Maria and her friends can leave Wiis, Sevi retrieves communication from the IP universal messaging system. It is a general alert, almost like a newscast that everyone, including Kal, watches aboard Whadgaf’s ship. “Aircraft are advised to avoid use of warpways in the vicinity of the Interstellar Panel in advance of the first ever…
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When the Dead Die – Issue 21 – Stunner
The Consortium of Human History is a research organization. It existed first as a fraternal order of intellects from many disciplines who sought an understanding of the origins and the purpose of humanity in the universe, and over many centuries, as its members gained power and influence, the COHH emerged as a multinational organization that…