I used to have a job that let me see the world. I know what it’s like to get on an airplane and get off in Manama, or Frankfurt, or São Paulo, or Wuhan. There’s a feeling, even if you’d…
The results were bad. Terrible really. The blood samples they had turned over to the lab while in the city confirmed everyone’s worst fears. Not only were there not enough people taking the serum to stop the spread of the disease, it appeared…
Their assignment finished, Morgan and Patch stopped by the payroll office and picked up their back pay. Most of the money they earned either officially as field agents, or unofficially as booty collectors, was deposited for safe keeping with the Consortium…
“Fifteen! I’m watching you!”, the official stared at Maddie as if to say, “give me a reason.” Maddie just shrugged at the girl from the opposing team, who was bent over at mid-field clutching her midsection. During the stoppage, Melody,…
Getting caught in The City would normally get you exiled to the eastern provinces with just the clothes on your back. There, if you were lucky, you would be killed, your organs harvested and what remained of your body fed to…
The field was littered with dismembered bodies and the evening mist had already begun to settle here on the valley floor. The organ pickers had come and gone, and what was left of the putrid flesh was food for the vultures. Wheeling…
Tony recognized her from school. He’d always been too shy to talk to her, and now here she was, waiting on his order and he was going to have to say something. He blurted it out so fast that there…
My favorite New Years Eve was at the home of friends of the family; the Conelleys. I think they were closer to my Aunt Leonia than my mother, but they knew all my aunts and uncles. They were all part of this…
No, this isn’t about some twelve year old’s fever dream of pretty older girls high kicking and dancing on stage. Sure, it could be, but it is not. I didn’t think of them that way. Sure they were pretty, but…
It’s actually a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil. What kind of place is it? Well, smack in the middle of the ritziest area we operated a factory, (my former company did that is.) Somehow, this factory survived, in that spot,…