But as they turned the corner, someone or something hit a toggle on the universe. Instead of a tunnel, the pair found themselves under a vast dome, with a starscape mural on the ceiling. The walls had opened up at the top, ending twelve feet up. Where there had been slowly cracking concrete and a...
Police are investigating the attack but have not announced any suspects. Given One Tough Mama’s financial problems, it’s not likely that the production will be able to complete principal photography without additional investors. Before Jane Konrad’s...
playing on the PA. She looked back and gave him the Really? look, and Eastwood shrugged.“I put Williams on loop when I need to think.”“Fair enough. So here’s what you need to know . . .” Ree ran through an account of her visit to the Moorelys’, punctuated by her questions, which Eastwood waved of...
King opened up the throttle, shifting into higher gear as the Force Runner tore across the broken remnants of what used to be a road. Overhead, the sun beat down on the Kalahari. Used to be, this region was Beta team’s beat. But you pick up a team member from a region, it ends up your problem fro...
First-year students learned to make the unguent of preservation, and only those who succeed were allowed to move on to the greater mysteries. Yema had been one of them, a lifetime ago. Magister Yema ran a hand along the wall, felt the grooves of the mural that told the sto...
Ree watched him go, letting out a happy sigh. Another way that Drake proved himself old-fashioned was his stance on running the bases. Ree had assumed she was in position to go straight for a double, but Drake waved her off at first base. Not that first base was anything b...
I had to get free, try to do something for Dorothea as quickly as possible. I clawed for the way out, keeping my mouth closed to avoid swallowing any of the manifested energy. Swallowing blood tended to go poorly. Esther had tricked me into doing so when she was six and I ...