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Least Possible Future – Issue 5 – Doves in the Wind
INFRARED – 8 (End) A lot is happening. Clay and the Don seem to be reaching Ivan, as Alia works with Wendy and Rhode to counter the Red Father’s assault. Wendy is channeling Alia’s starlight power to blast fireballs, and Rhode calls winds to control the excess. Clay calls out to Alia in the backyard…
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POWER 7. Ssi
INFRARED – 1 (Start) He was a strong and capable man. He could hunt antelope on his own, and he could start a fire on his first try; he put dried grass on stone and then struck it with another rock only once to create the spark that eventually sent a fire raging. He was…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 4 – Love Galore
INFRARED – 2 Alia never has trouble finding transportation. She should be scared; the odds of her being victimized are not slim when she travels alone and entrusts her safe movement to strangers, but she is the Alia and her talents give her unparalleled intuition. It seems that she irresponsibly follows a changing wind that…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 3 – Go Gina (Amazing Alia, the Alia Bk. *)
The Alia knows danger when she sees it; it doesn’t take preternatural ability to know that her life is threatened. “What will it be beautiful?” Selassie asks and he brushes his lips against her face. “He is coming, Red sent me, and he is just waiting for my word that you are well in hand.…
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Crude – Carolina Zombie Society One-Shots
Gertrude can be a monster. Even before her transformation, she was known to be cruel and uncompromising. Nowadays, she is avoiding human contact because when she limits contact, she avoids the transformation into her worst self. People bring out the worst in her. The nice ones are the worst, they make her feel guilty for…
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Eakran 15 – Eakran’s Experiments (One-Shots)
Druintes cannot easily acclimate to the environment of Earth. In order to be sure that he could survive on the planet once he arrived there, Eakran had to undergo a quarantine from other Druintes. He left the planet Druont completely to live in a section of the ship of the Interstellar Panel. He had been…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 2 – 20 Something
Something is amiss. The Alia tilts her head away from the sunlight, then grabs the handles of the chair where she sits to turn it around. The metal legs screech against the wooden patio in the back of the house that Alia now calls home. It’s a beautiful home in an affluent cul-de-sac, and Alia…
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POWER
6. The Man Who Survived (statement given two months from today) I couldn’t see anything. My eyes didn’t matter. I existed, though. I never died. The last thing that I remember is the overwhelming, all consuming red glow that felt tactile like water or sand, something to move through with effort. I remember the man’s…
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Least Possible Future – Issue 1 – Normal Girl
Things can change very quickly. One day, you’re in a magic show with a guy who can make real his imagination, and the next, you’re homeless and questioning everything that you ever believed to be true. That had been Alia for most of the past year. Out on her own, Alia wandered through many small…
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Encyclopedia of the Known Universe Vol. I (excerpt – appendix to “E” entry on energy)
Energy never diminishes in the universe. It changes form, though, and this seems to be a constant of the universe, that energy is always changing, always in flux. Technology allows us to harness energy to various results; technology defined as the materials that beings of the universe manipulate from their naturally occurring state into something…