Throughout my modeling career, I’d had Rudy and his marketing team to funnel public and corporate attention. The fashion shows, the holo-shoots, the charity events I’d graced in my skimpiest Gs and Ds—these, I came to learn over one excruciating day on the podnet, had been ingeniously cherry-pick...
I wondered where Ethel and Sam might be in 1979. Off on some dangerous expedition in search of ancient human remains buried centuries before? Perhaps those remains might be mine, I thought--a true anthropological anomaly to rival that of the missing link. Though I somehow doubted if my skeleton w...
I think he always was—the loss of his wife and son turned him against everything and everyone. We’ve seen it time and again, greatness lying dormant until a person is visited by profound adversity. Nothing rouses creativity like a personal challenge. In his case, a challenge from Fate...
Breathe in, blow out. Repeat. No use. Waiting in limbo before hitting the limelight was just too nerve-racking. Race day was funny like that, always had been, Charlie decided. Hell, he could happily make a complete ass of himself 24/7 on camera, but this anticipation, this space, this self-inquis...
As L.B. slid the uninflated buoyancy bands up her arms, Gus gazed out over the endless lake. “You’re on.” He squinted to reduce the sun’s metallic silver glare as it chopped up the water into a billion blinding fragments. Between the Altimere hub and the lighthouse tower w...