“Frozen Nightmare “

A chilling sleep begins.

The carnage and chaos had ended.
He was the only survivor.
Recognizable remains littered the corridors. Blood pooled over artificial gravity wells.
A course to Earth was set, and he gingerly collapsed into a cryogenics pod.
As the pod sealed, a motion light kicked on.

“No Broomstick Necessary”

He toured the entirety of his ancestral homeland without a single step.

After he signed the book, he decided to vacation in Portugal before getting down to business.

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“A Haunting Light-years Away”

“I hear voices and scratching,” the child whispered beneath a heavy comforter.

Darkness blanketed the Montes Apenninus just beyond his son’s bedroom window.

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“Revenge Postmortem”

A piece for the working man.

Although the family feared trouble and planned a special burial, anarchists got the body of George Pullman before the earth did.

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“A Secret in Harare”

All conspiracies unravel in time.

“You don’t understand — I need to get from Bulawayo to Harare as soon as possible. I need to be on the roof of the New Reserve Bank Tower before sunset.”

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“Angola to Mississippi”

He stepped into the cyan circle.

He settled in Luanda despite the distance.

The portal was first opened in a basement along Rua Ngola Mbandi — a stone’s throw from the airport.

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