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Saterna (Limited Series) – Issue 3 of 3 – Ocha/Asiento
The PRL Event: Darker Resurrection 4 “What kind of mother abandons her only child?” Isabel is dead now. She had been standing on the rickety front porch of the dilapidated cabin where she has lived for months, and then she collapsed and her body tumbled to the ground, bruising and bleeding along the way. It…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 9 – The Weekend
The PRL Event: Darker Resurrection 6 The pews of Third Baptist are hard and Alia fidgets over the course of the long sermon. She had been greeted kindly enough by the church members when she entered with Vita and Gertrude, and though they sat in the very back, they were called upon to introduce themselves…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 8 – Garden (Say It Like Dat)
“Just the two of us?” Yuri asks, holding his phone casually to his ear as he divides his attentions between the call and ordering coffee at a neighborhood coffee chain. The cashier is annoyed but forces a smile. “Hey, can you heat me up a bagel?” he asks the cashier, momentarily sweeping the receiver of…
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Saterna (Limited Series) – Issue 2 of 3 – Elekes/Los Guerreros
There is no Dudu Aje, there is only racism. The Aje wants goodness for all, she is the protector of civilization, and as such, the true Aje does not discriminate. But cultural practices have warped that intent and overlaid ideas of supremacy that are rooted in skin color where darker shades are considered inferior to…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 7 – Anything
Alia is on the lake at Kevin’s house, in a canoe that his sister, Vita, explains belongs to her father. “He never uses it,” Vita says, “but Kevin was always out here. Where do you think he is now?” Alia shrugs. She has no idea and she has not been able to reach his mind.…
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Saterna (Limited Series) – Issue 1 of 3 – The Aje Returns
Encyclopedia of the Known Universe Vol I (excerpt 18 – appendix to “h” entry on history) The stories that humans tell are similar, with variations, as though we have been telling the same story since the beginning. We have done our best to describe the phenomena of our existence so that we can properly identify…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 6 – Wavy (Interlude)
It is real this time, Alia knows it. When she wakes up in the room that used to belong Clay’s sister, Brittany, Alia knows that she is finally in a home with a family that truly cares for her. No medication. It isn’t even a thought to her as she rolls out of bed and…
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Made in America (2018 Annual) – Issue 1 –
Detective Marcus Colston of the Knoxville Police Department was murdered yesterday. It won’t appear that way to the majority of investigators who find his body, save one very astute detective whose name is the antithesis of his birth certificate, and the murderer will never face justice for the crime. The murderer is a slippery young…
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Fhet Kings (2018 Annual) -Issue 1 –
The Fhetat is not a planet. It is more like a chain of islands than a planet. Think Micronesia, but in space, and enough islands to wrap a planet the size of Jupiter. The Fhetat is not a homogenous culture. There are sixteen distinct sections of the Fhetat that are identified by section number, and…
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POWER 8. Impressive
INFRARED – 5 Do we know what a ghost is? The spirit of a deceased person stuck between life and death, the physical realm of the present and whatever other realm their soul would inhabit were it to depart this realm. Oftentimes these spirits get stuck in the spot of trauma, spots of great energy…