Tag: found family
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THE BRIDGE HAD IT COMING
The lair, as lairs went, was usually a place of quiet menace, dim lighting, the hum of machinery nobody quite understood, the occasional dramatic drip of condensation from a pipe overhead. Today it was mostly quiet because Sable was standing in the doorway with her arms crossed, staring at her business partner with an expression…
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THE LAST WATCH
The fire had burned down to embers by the time the thing outside stopped circling the cabin. Mira sat with her back against the door, knees pulled to her chest, listening to the wood settle and crack. Across the room, in the only bed, her little brother Tomas slept the way only an exhausted nine-year-old…
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The Diagnostician’s Bargain
The light here was the color of the inside of an eyelid, warm, red-gold, endless. Dr. Imogen Vale had expected fire. She had, in fact, spent the better part of forty years expecting fire, and had made her peace with it sometime around her sixtieth birthday, filing it away with the rest of the things…