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…
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…
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…
We’re on a hybrid work schedule, like most people in the services procession. My field, I.T., both leverages and enables it. I like a lot of things about it: more time to exercise, less money on lunches and clothes, and…
Ten Years Old If he were to be believed, he saw an empty spot next to her during arts and crafts time, grabbed the opportunity, and sat down. If she were to be believed, she saw him wandering around with…
She closed her eyes and felt the breeze brush her cheeks. Save for the chirping of nattering birds and the burbling of the water over rocks it was silent. When she opened her eyes again, the effect was a burst…
It had been nearly two years since the craziness of Memphis and life had returned to something resembling normal. “Resembling” normal was about as normal as it was going to get considering that Gretchen was stalked by news crews day…
Maddie wiped the tears from her eyes. She was done crying, that wouldn’t bring Tay back. It wouldn’t bring Dorinda back and it wouldn’t bring her parents back. The rain and the mist had cleared while she was sleeping and…
It was something we said to each other as children…our sense of time and place were malleable; we had not yet been indoctrinated into the order of things as dictated by our elders. Put it another way, our outlook was…
He lay in bed, in the semi darkness, the room only illuminated by the soft green glow of the stereo dial. The volume was turned down so the room was silent save for the occasional, quiet passing of other students…