From: Caleb Franklin <CastorYPollux@gmail.com>
To: Jason Hightower <Jason_Hightower@GameSpot.com>

Hi Jason,

Just getting the chance now to reply back to you about those questions you sent me; here are the answers:My favorite game is Never Winter Nights ( Read more... )

Was it a burning branch from a lightning strike?  The still hot embers of a forest fire?  How man came to harness fire is a mystery that may never be solved.  But with those first flames, came the sparks of ideas, from whence soon more advanced tools would follow.  The march of progress, slow at first, began rapidly moving forward from that point ( Read more... )

Bullets ricocheted off the wall nearest Fehed.  He and Tala were pinned down and could not move.  On the other side of the corridor, he could see that Chepi and Ezra fared no better ( Read more... )

Fehed quietly closed the door and pressed himself against the wall next to it ( Read more... )

It has been 4 years since I have seen anything beyond the walls of this padded room.  But today I will be released, and shall once again taste freedom.  I passed my psych eval and the powers that be have determined that I am stable enough to return to society.  The only condition of my release is that I don’t go anywhere near Caroline ( Read more... )

Franz awoke without opening his eyes to the sound of laughter and talking around him.  Confused and disoriented, he rapidly blinked first one and then the other eye several times, until both seemed functional enough to open slowly.  The first sight that met him was a golden lyre propped against a divan across from him, and he realized he reclined ( Read more... )

The rain was coming down in sheets and the grey clouds that filled the sky made it seem more like night than the middle of the day.  Alden Duke ruminated upon the city below from his leather executive chair, his head leaning against the thick glass of his office window, several stories up.  He was one of two guardians for Chicago; he covered the ( Read more... )

I had been prepared, or so I thought, for the coming cataclysm; I had a bug-out bag created from various books and websites, I had a shelter full of supplies, and I had an escape plan. I had learned to get along pretty well in my own company; after all, I knew there was a time coming when it would be every man for himself, so, naturally, I figured ( Read more... )

Chepi and Ezra had been huddled in a darkened lab for the past hour, with Ezra whining all the while in a low toned hiss about how much he missed Rhiannon, and how she would never have gotten them into a fine mess like this.  Trying to stay focused and concentrate, Chepi mostly ignored him.  She had learned long ago to tune out most of what comes ( Read more... )

Chepi brooded in the back of the cab with her head in her hands, lost in thought.  The debriefing of their last mission had not gone well.  Commander Noriko read her the riot act over her team’s performance, and well she should have.  Chepi would have a few choice words for her team at their next meeting in the morning.  For now, she just wanted to ( Read more... )