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January 1828 Finnegan never imagined winters in the south could be so wicked. He paced the perimeter of the Fort on cold-stiff legs, his rifle slung across his back. Apart from training, he had not fired the thing but once since joining the Army and that was to shoo away a wild dog. He brought [...]

The first time I saw Nick Page, he was pointing a shotgun at my head and telling me not to move.  He wore a pith helmet and the khaki uniform of an old British explorer that day.  A bandoleer stuffed with sharpened wooden stakes hung over one of his skinny shoulders.  I placed him at [...]

His name was Alfie and he’d sworn to slay the dragon. His full name was Alphimenoös Stoneacre Athelwight of Lesser Blossommere, but most people called him Alfie. He was short and proud and petty in the way of small-but-pretentious shopkeepers. Not a bad man, as such men go, yet he cared far less for the [...]

Niko doesn’t believe I can’t dance. Get up, he demands, and show me what you can do. He pulls my arm. Not only am I known as the emperor of invention, he says, the genius who lit the world, the patron saint of modern physics, but I am a very talented dancer. Not many people [...]

Even over the endless thunder of the pouring rain, Salir could hear the girl crying. She stood in the shadows, as still as the statues that surrounded her, oblivious to the rain that had soaked her white hair and dress, weeping, and it made Salir’s heart ache to hear it. He took a step towards [...]

“We’re not freezing our baby!” “Margaret, you’re being old-fashioned.” Chad guided his wife away from the Hologram TVs. She glanced back over her shoulder at the looped video display of a baby grabbing and stuffing a toy in its mouth. “Cryonic technology,” he continued, “has been approved by the FDA. There’s no danger.” “No?” She [...]

They’d been circling the neighborhood in the pounding rain for half an hour before Kevin slammed on the brakes, sending the car to a jerking halt. “What the hell are you doing?” Elaine yelled as she ripped her hands off the dashboard. Her witch’s hat had flown off and landed in the back seat. “I [...]

Where I’m from, West Virgina ways, everybody know Prissy’s a witch. I mean, she live in this little house outside of town, out on the mountain where it’s all dark and spooky, kinda like a shack but not fallin’ down, and she do things for people. Make them better, make them worse. Make them more, [...]

Halfway through the morning briefing, all Matt Ryan had been able to process was that there was a tiny, almost-invisible fly circling the donut box at the center of the table, and Matt could’ve caught it with her fingers, if only she was a ninja. The fly landed on the edge of the donut box, [...]