Category: adventure
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Freedom Bridge
Chapter 8: A Small Victory As the weeks passed, they fell into a routine that began to incrementally, almost imperceptibly altered to where Roland’s physical decline over the stress of his schedule began to get passed on to Crystal. Assurances that she’d be all right after he left rang hollow. If anything, she…
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Freedom Bridge
Chapter 6: Embedded Over the next few weeks they both worked far into the night and slept on cots provided by NIQ. Crystal was quick to pick up the sequence, and Roland allowed her to write the next sequence of code that would aid in NIQ’s ability to translate different languages as a preventive measure…
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Freedom Bridge
Chapter 5; Clarity Crystal Santiago was there by lunchtime, sitting across from Roland at the round, small, transparent table where he ate before stepping outside. Everything about her was well tended, and her mind was as sharp and bright as her gleaming nails. “Robotic forensics? What is that, exactly.” “The short version is combing through…
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Freedom Bridge
Chapter 3: Night’s Cold Embrace A creature of habit, Roland Bernard, no longer in his lab coat, stared at the night sky through his floor length windows at the slow moving lights of trawlers picking up the debris of humanity, including the victims of meaner humanity.A glass of whiskey in his hand, he scented its…
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Freedom Bridge
Chapter 1: The End We’d all seen the movies: plunged into dystopias by sentient androids, internet self-awareness, and the ensuing blood-vs-bolts wars that ensued. We stopped eating our popcorn, waiting for the moment when fragile flesh ultimately outsmarted the cumulative knowledge of its own creations to regain control, emerging from the ashes into myriad New…
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Zephyr and Gale
Chapter 13: Waves of Departure When Gale finally knocked on his door, it was softer than she wanted. He woke up and mentally steadied his thoughts for whatever happened “Come in.” She did, staring at him for a long moment, her expression unreadable, and he wasn’t sure at the moment that…
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Zephyr and Gale
Chapter 7: The Breakaway “We can’t leave her here, Zephyr.” “I don’t know that we have a choice. She was an enslaver long before you, Gale. She’s built a history here, and likely elsewhere, to the extent where she really has nowhere to escape.” “I know that. I’d still like to try.” “Dammit, Gale! Time’s…
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