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“I pride myself on my strength,” Rusa Gawol said shakily, the light from the torch he bore quivering against the dark cave walls as he failed to control his nerve and calm the fear that made him tremble. He kept close to Pultine in the smothering darkness that was only interrupted by the light from…
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Remarkable – Issue 13 – A Lesson in Failure
Paul Young stood in the dense woods as the rain and winds raged through the tree trunks. Despite the chaos around him, his senses were finely turned to detecting the presence of a razew. He knew their scent, and he could feel the heat generated by their bodies over long distances. He honed these senses…
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Remarkable – Issue 12 – Wazad and the Boys
Before Wazad reinforced the barrier around the garden where Tolot slept in his tree to keep him contained and undetectable to anyone looking for him through arcane means, and before she opened a portal next to Paul’s large truck next to the lake where it was parked, she sat inside a room of the Museum…
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Remarkable – Issue 11 – Allies of the Razew
“Are you sure this is the right room? There’s so many on each floor, who knew there were so many mentally unstable humans with dangerous abilities. This planet is so unpredictable.” “This is it,” an odd man said, gazing through the window on one of the doors in the hallway. “He’s sitting up in bed,…
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Sun of the Morning – Can’t Tell Me Nothing (Kanye West) Part 3 of 3
“…please blame it on the Son of the Morning” – Jay-Z “I got into that summer program at Berklee,” Brandon said to his cousin while Lincoln sat on the lawn chair underneath the covered driveway at Snot’s house. He was speaking to Snot, but he knew that Lincoln was listening and he was hoping to…
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Come Close 9. Untouchable (Anomalie, India Carney)
“I haven’t been avoiding you,” uncle Thomas insisted. We were in his apartment in Brooklyn, the playlist I had made for him played in the background and we were just sitting down to dinner. I love being in his apartment, so much so that I try to recreate the aesthetic of his space on my…
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Sun of the Morning – Can’t Tell Me Nothing (Kanye West) Part 2 of 3
“…please blame it on the Son of the Morning” – Jay-Z “You know everybody in Ladoga,” Lincoln said to Ms. Eunice, “what you know about Afonso Barnes?” He was sitting at a table with Ms. Eunice and she was reviewing a paper he had done for his history class. She laughed out loud when he…
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Sun of the Morning – Can’t Tell Me Nothing (Kanye West) Part 1 of 3
“…please blame it on the Son of the Morning” – Jay-Z Lincoln wanted to make music and that is all he did as a teenager. He did well academically, but he looked forward to band and choir that he would take all four years of high school. He had never thought of himself as a…
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Sun of the Morning – Hail Mary (Tupac) Part 3 of 3
“…please blame it on the Son of the Morning” – Jay-Z Zora arrived at her grandmother’s house and she sat in her car in the driveway for long enough to finish crying and to fix her face. Crying alone – in her car, in various rooms of her house, on the bench in the park…
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Come Close – Grapefruit (DYVN) Part 4 of 4
8. Cool Grey 11s (Marlon Craft) “If you’re worried, you have to call him,” Valeria said. We were driving home from a friend’s St. Patrick’s Day party. I was driving because Valeria had had a few too many, and she was in a very talkative mood. The party had been a lot of fun, though…