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Julie Montcalm had a problem - or two of them. Horace Hackett Jr. was behind deadline for a story she needed. But the worst of that is he had written her into the story itself, as a character.
Along with her friend and fellow classmate Micah DeWolf, she was living the story itself as Hackett wrote it.
Worse, it was a hack-job version of his father's pulp fiction story about Caribbean wars between the English and Spanish. And the two of them were...
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Our Second Civil War was over in minutes, while the conflict took decades. As in all wars, both sides lost heavily and then proclaimed victory. I knew this all too well, serving as a paramedic to patch up their wounded and dying.
I'd gotten myself into 'Cagga to solve my nightmares. After I'd sworn off coming back into the cities where the only real violence happened. She was in my dreams every night, and turned them into the same hell on earth she...
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A Collection of the Dark Humor Satire of R. L. Saunders
Life in our dystopian near-futures has never been funnier. Saunders gets inspiration from our daily news, and these stories are therapy for us as well. Skewering what is accepted as conventional wisdom, Saunders explores concepts which are more easily delivered with entertainment than op-eds or tweet-storms.
Always taking the "what if" of current controversies to their slippery-slope results,...
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Only a Frump could be, elected in this modern age. Because no one trusted a man to get anything, right anymore. The first female president fit the model, and this reporter was putting the pieces together on how she got elected.
She simply put a new approach to classic political ploys. The right gal, at the right time.
All wasn't smooth sailing though...
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She told the magistrate she had been abused, taken advantage of, her reputation ruined.
Or, had she?
The village law said that the benefit of the doubt lay with the most vulnerable. And, so women were believed, when they said some male had fondled or groped or acted in a threatening manner.
For Lyla, it had happened many times. All to her shame.
The men she accused were penalized and their own reputations marked.
Simply denying it was no defense....
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The third time she was, beaten up by a different roving city gang and this time left for dead. The guy, who saved her life wanted to help solve, how she ended up that way.
What wasn't working was to be anything they wanted. White, Black, Male, Female, Gay, Straight, someone was always offended, no matter what. And now, she had no choice. They had taken all she had, even her job, apartment and everything else she owned. Even her identity. Now she...
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A Simple Job: Make a Delivery and Get Paid a Fortune - Or Die.
What he was driving was an up-armored trailer rig. And, was getting paid a fortune to deliver something to a fortified city.
To someone who had a fortune to spend on it - if he only survived long enough to cash in.
The boxes were unmarked and had to stay sealed.
But, when he arrived at the delivery location, there was no building there. Just someone jamming all the frequencies, except...
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