Category: dystopian
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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: Dr. Bernard’s Lab

A numbness that was almost an aura these days engulfed every aspect of Dr. Bernard’s humanity. He remembered, at times, the pleasant thrill he got from going down what the populace whimsically called ‘rabbit holes’ when he conducted his experiments. The methodology brought him solace and stability. The successes, and yes, even failures, gave him…
