Charon – Boatman of the Afterlife of Last Resort
A Cappuccino with Charon I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop, dodging my workplace, when I saw Him come in. I wasn’t quite sure what I was seeing at first, because, well, this is San Francisco,...
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a tale of the twilight continuum One of the most recent civilizations to join the Hegemony, the Plutarchs, a group of sentients from a highly advanced world, upon discovering the existence of...
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Only Here for the Food Mammon ate. It did not really matter what he was eating, only that he did. Mammon was always eating. No, that’s not right. Mammon was always hungry. No amount of eating ever...
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Hail the Spirit Army Ptah laughed. The sun rose over what looked like the city of Cairo. The early morning light cleared the horizon and was bright and sharp, stinging the eyes with its searing,...
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From space, it looked like a ball of blue and brown; blue oceans swirled with windblown whitecaps and the occasional tiny island could be found, but most were scoured clean by the Last Storm. You...
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The sky was darkened by steel-grey clouds, running toward the horizon’s setting sun, as if to extinguish its light on this scene of urban justice. The scaffold, hastily erected seemed eerily at peace...
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a tale of the twilight continuum Θ From the ansible memoirs of Exalted Scout, Glendale Mokoto, Hero of the Exodus Wars and the Fall of Earth. These are an amalgam of the earliest recordings before he...
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Invasive Species and Supernovas a tale of the twilight continuum Θ Pele Mokoto sat back in the center of the room, trying to make sense of the impossible. Her face was pale, her gaze haunted. She was...
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a tale of the Twilight Continuum Hanging from the side of a building, cloaked in shadow, I could see the lights from the police roachsters sweeping the warehouse district and knew that we could not...
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a tale of Hayward’s Reach Stephanie Mehta woke Thursday morning to her clock radio in her tiny apartment in the Russian city of Moscow. It was little more than a room with a kitchen and bathroom. She...
View ArticleJack Dempsey in ‘And the Award Goes To…’
And the Award Goes To… Jack Dempsey was the last of the great actors of 2026. His dashing smile and trademark Kung-Fu made him the action hero other actors wanted to be for more than a decade. His star...
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