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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 14

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 14

    “Tell me of your home.” I studied paper white skin at the edge of my cheek. Green flecks of plankton and salt drifted in swirls of ocean waters across Saeesar’s chest. The sun beat down on us as we floated over calm waves. His fins billowed out around him, soft and translucent like threadbare muslin.…

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  • Life of a Librarian: Chapter 11

    I dropped my bags next to the shoe rack when the door clicked behind us.  A sigh escaped me as I absorbed the gentle light of the setting sun in the courtyard.  This had to be one of the more beautiful times of day to see the apartment.

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  • The Fire in My Blood: Chapter 8

    My room was on the third floor of the north end of the old factory.  We kept guest rooms up on that floor for when we had Caeruleum visitors come in.  Rescues didn’t often get lodged in the factory until they had been vetted.  Maria Mater had made an exception for me with Sanctus.  Seeing…

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 13

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 13

    “I heard Siren Voice so far out, I had to come investigate, Bet-tah,” Leviathan chuckled to itself. “And here I find you hiding a Kraken child. Who’s do you have? Cuttle? Lineolata, Mestus? Typica’s, mayhaps?”

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  • Life of a Librarian: Chapter 10

    “A little Simil for a big Simil?” I posited to the Mad Hatter. “Benefit the system, and the system benefits you.” He plucked at a grape.  It slipped past his fork to roll to the other side of his plate. Baffled disappointment creased his features.

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  • The Fire in My Blood: Ch 7

    Dressed back into my trench, I directed Sanctus to the door.  “Thanks, Medicus.  I’ll drop by in the morning,” I said over my shoulder as I let us out of the clinic.

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  • Life of a Librarian: Chapter 9

    It seemed that the hallways were perpetually empty.  Maybe it was that the complex was so vast that it distributed people well enough to make it rare for more than a couple of people to occupy the halls at any one time.  I was perpetually amazed at the layout of the tunnels.  There were no…

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 11

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 11

    The solution, for the moment, was a long abandoned dock a few miles from the bay. It had belonged to a private property. From the water edge, appearances were that the roof of the mansion had collapsed years ago. The beach receded into a cobbled-together mass of sandstone boulder and shrub brush before the boards…

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  • The Fire in My Blood: Chapter 5

    Requies had provided me with the apartment number while I had mulled over my first introduction to his place of business. After a longer than necessary chat, I headed out his door and made for the west end steps. I had left Cortex and Tempestatis back at the warehouse to wait on orders. I had…

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