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What It Is About Christmas

“Dunno what it is about Christmas,” she said, looking down at her empty hands. Chipped nails fiddle with the fraying edges of her cheap fingerless gloves. “Sometimes I duck into the churches that stay open overnight. Around this time of … Continue reading

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If you have not already read parts 1-22, I suggest you click on the ‘Serials’ tab at the top of this page, and begin at the beginning, as this is the end, and it’ll feel rather anticlimactic to start here, … Continue reading

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If you’re a new reader, please visit the ‘Serials’ tab at the top of this page, to read parts 1-21 of this story, before you continue below. * * * Once more, he stood in the crater, in the between … Continue reading

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Our Captain dreamt. In the red dark, he walked in the footsteps of those before him. He walked in his own footsteps. He saw the Desolation, the Central City, the sprawling tides of the dead, the skeletal faces of those … Continue reading

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This is Part 20 in an ongoing serial. Visit the ‘Serials’ tab at the top of the page to read parts 1-19. * * * Time passed — slowly. Without Luroteo, a great and dismal sadness seemed to settle over … Continue reading

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