Posted on March 31, 2008 by wincing.at.light
<– Chapter 20 / Chapter 22 –>
Beyond the broken frame of the blast doors sat the titanium-caged rig of the sonic bore, its long shaft sleek and red, its amplifier node a riot of silver and purple, like the gravid head of a seed pod.It was dormant now, but as they squeezed past, Dorian could [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by wincing.at.light
<– Chapter 19 / Chapter 21 –>
The bore fell still. The stabbing blat of the alarms cut off abruptly. The fading echo rolled across the concrete landscape and then disappeared altogether. Dorian started guiltily at the keen silence, the memory of sound still reverberating in his ears. The sudden emptiness was [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2008 by wincing.at.light
<– Chapter 18 / Chapter 20 –>
Alive.
A shock, an epiphany, an idling engine.
A breath.
Sharp, shallow, alarmed.
Pain.
Flames roiled in his chest, lapping at the tallow of his lungs.Pins and needles attacked the nerves from toe tips to fingernails.His eyes burned, his skin sang, his muscles throbbed.Everything that he recognized as himself, his body, ached.His tongue was [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by wincing.at.light
What does it say about me …that I enjoyed the Sports Gal’s column on ESPN.com more than I’ve enjoyed anything from Bill Simmons in the last year? (For those of you not in the loop, Bill Simmons — a.k.a. The Sports Guy — writes regular sports/pop culture columns for ESPN. He’s notorious for his love [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by wincing.at.light
<– Chapter 17 / Chapter 19 –>
Thrum. Thrum. Thrum. Eeeee.
Arz. Thrum Oooo. Thrum. Eeee?
Thum. Oooo. [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by wincing.at.light
<– Chapter 16 / Chapter 18 –>
He stares off into space. Not literal space, not outer space, but at nothing, letting his eyes blur and the colors of the nothingness run together until they swirl and dance and gradually fade into a pistache of dull and incoherent brush strokes, the way a surrealist paints [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by wincing.at.light
I’ve heard recently from a couple of readers who picked up corrupted and/or incomplete files of Agnosis in the Palm eReader format from manybooks.net. I’m not sure how widespread this problem is, but in the event that you’re looking for a complete file and not having any luck over at Matt’s site, I managed to [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by wincing.at.light
<– Chapter 15 / Chapter 17 –>
Nothing was where he had left it. Not the Korski, the table and chairs, not the alarmingly yellow cabinetry, or even, truth be told, the kitchen itself. Dorian flipped out of geek and found himself staring up at the heavy and worn crossbeams of an unfinished [...]
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