"When I was just a baby, my mama told me, Son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns..."

The words were thick, trembling in the dusty air of the dungeon, and there was a note in there that wasn't usually present in Johnny Cash's famed tune.

Fear.

Lloyd was trying hard not to lose his shit (not that he had much left), but the stillness ( Read more... )

While Lloyd wasn't all that well-versed in Murphy's Law and all of its variations, it was the only legal system he'd been consistently bound to throughout his entire life; he had the learned awareness that the universe wasn't a very nice place, and that if something seemed too good to be true, it probably meant that there was an ugly surprise ( Read more... )