Colson’s erratic behavior outside the vault door), severe leukopenia, vomiting, electrolyte disturbance and moderate to severe hypovolemia / hypotension. Mortality onset, within 2 to 6 weeks.) ~ (Further: Following this ominous note — which is our only written entry from Sophie during an unknow...
The canyon walls slide by, streaked with gray water and scalded runnels where the snowmelt from earlier weeks has boiled away in firestorm. Reddish shadows dance across the road like filaments of spirit, unreflecting memories of dismembered phantoms, tumbling along in a hallucinatory glaze. A p...
She found the standard-metric wrench that had fallen to the floor, calibrated its hook jaw to precisely half an inch and then two centimeters and back again. She not only pulled out many of the binders from the wreckage of the shelves, she stood them on end upon the floor and then she alphabetize...
She swam through the drowning shelter, she confronted the spider-skin. Her old flesh was floating above the shower, a plagued husk of an algae-covered corpse. She woke up, swam to it, and turned it around to stare into its face. She turned her dead flesh over and it was not elder Sophie the dead ...
Saint-Germain lived near to the town of Black Hawk, an unrecoverable site believed to have been located some 60 kilometers west of Denver, somewhere along the eastward-facing “Rocky Mountain” spine of U.S. Province 38 (then known as “Colorado”). The narrative — in the form of a single spiral-boun...