A storm sewer isn’t an ideal place for a meal. Given the circumstances, it’ll have to do. We’re not far from one of my usual haunts, but I didn’t want to drag Mateo there in case we get followed again. My plan now is to see who else might chase us, or if we’re really… Continue reading Episode Six
Thump, thump, thump. Heavy metal boots march on the chapel roof. I stare in horror at the ceiling, waiting for the guillotine blade to fall. “How do you think he found us so quickly?” Megajoule asks. “I don’t know,” I mutter. Megajoule chuckles as he circles around me like a shark. “This is why you… Continue reading Episode Five
Two hours ago, I slipped into the Marskin warehouse expecting to find a gang of a dozen welterweight punks. I was paid three hundred American dollars to take care of them. Paul and I desperately needed the money to make ends meet. Instead I found a mass tomb. The gang I was supposed to scare… Continue reading Episode Four
Food stalls lurk in the skeletons of office buildings. Homes are made with plastic tarp and corrugated steel more often than brick and mortar. Nearly every building here has been touched by Affected war at some point in the last century. Capes move overhead like moons shifting the tides of the lives below them. And… Continue reading Episode Three
Immerse yourself again in blood with me. Are you there? Can you feel dead fingers grazing your skin in the red water? Good. I kneel over the one survivor I’ve found, a Latino kid covered in gore. He stammers, his body seizing. “Kid, you okay?” I ask. “P-p-p-p-p-p-” the boy starts while his body shakes… Continue reading Episode Two
“The Affect made the ideal into the material. Rage, love, and hatred are all physical and can be measured. Moreover, they can be controlled. But what does that mean for the people who feel them?” Terrence Lilac, Affect Research Division Part One All the Universe's Violent Music As far as I know, I’m twenty-one. To… Continue reading Episode One
2103 “MEGAJOULE, 49, DEAD.” Three simple words that bring the world to standstill on May 13th, 2103. The wrench that built the machinery now jammed back into the gears, destroying all forward momentum. Paul parks the car and stares, helplessly, hopelessly, at the radio. “This is the future I helped make,” he thinks. Almost says… Continue reading Prologue
Greetings. Inheritors was a serial that launched in February 2018. It changed and transformed a lot. It died in August of 2019. It will be reborn, end of summer 2020. If you're looking for the old serial, please visit the Inheritors Discord and find an .epub version in the pinned messages of the announcements channel.… Continue reading New Arrivals
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