Idle Hands

He’s pacing again. When you consider his other ticks, that’s tremendously bad. More than anything else, it’s his hands. They constantly twitch, stretch, and flex. When he’s angry, his fingers expand and contract, balling into fists from open palms. When he’s stressed, he pops his knuckles, repeatedly. When he’s anxious or nervous, that’s usually when […]

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Mercy

The camp fire had been burning a couple of hours at this point. They settled on a small clearing between the trees off the main road to keep out of the way, but the firelight made them seen from nearly any direction. Willem didn’t think it was an issue, despite the problems they’d had the […]

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Reliquary of the Damned

The world around you has a history of its own, beyond the perspective of your existence. Just like you, the things around you have their glorious moments and their deep, dark secrets. Victors and the vanquished share something in common: the bloody, brutal war that led up to their definitive title. Your surroundings are both […]

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What Are We Without The Sky?

No one knows how it happened, much less why. Theories range anywhere from extraterrestrial invasion, which, given the presence of the Cloven and the Vice, is entirely likely, to unstable mutations that spread throughout the original planet Earth, eradicating our species at a terrifying, exponential rate. Genocide? Check. Zombies? Check. Extra dimensional tentacle monsters? You […]

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It Never Ends

Normally, when the power goes out, it’s a small problem, sometimes barely a problem. When you’re in a deep space research laboratory in orbit of an uninhabitable planet, having the power go out means that your life support systems are running on emergency power. When the power goes out here, the clock starts ticking towards […]

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Meat

The food could be better. I shouldn’t complain, but the fact of the matter is that we don’t have many options anymore. The more we scavenge from the surrounding buildings, the farther out we have to go. We’re stretching ourselves thinner every day, but it’s an unfortunate necessity to our lives now. We’ll have to […]

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