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“Stand Down” Week 67 – No Installment
“Stand Down” Week 66 – RANOV AND THE SOUND OF THE END
The cars keep coming– why do they keep coming? Something about this had struck Scott all-too-hard as the climactic end of a book– where it is decided whether the hero is a hero at all. He’d pulled himself from the rubble– not too hard, seeing as how a wall had caved to form a perfect…
“Stand Down” Week 65 – No Installment
“Stand Down” Week 64 – Ranov, Unleashed
The stunned pizza-delivery hippie remains for a moment in the lobby. He hesitates between the door and the bodies strewing the place as he hears unsteady rushing from the stairs, coming down. There, some wheezing elder– named Yaga, though he doesn’t know it– reaches the bottom and has to hold on to the rail’s end…
“Stand Down” Week 63 – No Installment
“Stand Down” Week 62 – No Installment
“Stand Down” Week 61 – No Installment
“Stand Down” Week 60 – Wood Elk
A distance away, a heavy boot finds an invisible alien’s head upon the floor of Zain’s past cell. All is slick with extraterrestrial essence, and the creature’s psychic screams are resonating in uncaring minds. The guard shoots one of its eyes out, then its brains. Jordan was alone, now, save for the moose a few…
“Stand Down” Week 59 – No Installment
“Stand Down” Week 58 – Sacred Elements
Again, in that black place. Jordan knows he’s dreaming. He recognizes all this scenery, or lackthereof. So why can’t he change anything? Isn’t this his dream? Couldn’t he be lucid-dreaming right now? Does he feel so helpless? That even in his brain, he can’t shirk that quivering ball of fear? He sees it, now. The…