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gated
[After thisWhen you've been on the job for thirty-plus years, you're going to know where the bodies are buried, and that's especially true if you're a Man in Black. Which is why K knows all the codes and conduits down to Sublevel 86-D-Epsilon, the very lowest floor (so far) of MiB Headquarters ( Read more... ) -
Jack Jeebs’ Less Than Stellar Day
Jack Jeebs was having a good week. Oh, yeah, it was fine, dog. The way things were going, he was going to make the best profit today that he'd seen in months.
And the best thing was, he had it all sewed up. Every last detail nailed down and ready to go. Absolutely nothing could go wrong n--.
BANG! went the front door.
"H-hiyah, K."
Oh, shit. ( Read more... ) -
spring cleaning
So it’s no secret I haven’t been very good about following through on plots lately. (For ‘lately’, read ‘two years.’) Some of that is due to the job I started back then, and the long commute, which cut seriously into my free time. But it wasn’t all that ( Read more... ) -
No End of L
Deep Space ( Read more... ) -
Hyperdrive, Part II
[After this]
Turns out K does have time to aim at the hooded figure standing before him. It just doesn’t make any difference. His staccato burst of white-hot energy slams into the Entity.
No damn effect.
“Aw, shit!” K growls, turning and diving for the hallway as the air in front of the figure shimmers, contorts... and then something rips ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
It took the assault teams 38 days just to establish a beachhead near the Rimiran colony. It’s been another 78 days since then with barely a word from the Regula Cluster ( Read more... ) -
After Helen
You wouldn’t expect it in a galaxy where a prominent race was singled out as "the Bugs," but a high percentage of interstellar races were insectoid in form. And most of the other alien sentients were creepers and crawlers of some other kind. Worm-like, roach-like, millipede-like, you name it. There were so many that Zed considered them strong proof ( Read more... ) -
Helen's Tale
The Gray Men were back. The Gray Men who had been coming every night. Helen knew They would be back. They still had more experiments. She knew that. It was the only thing she was certain of anymore ( Read more... ) -
The joys of Rollerball
Agent K nearly makes it. He's almost in Milliways with the Door shut firmly behind him when his phone goes off. The ringtone is a perfectly bizarre acapella number from Regent Prime that sounds like a dump truck getting pulled through a trash compactor. The sound makes K cringe every time, just like he does when he gets another Rollerball question ( Read more... )