Shadowrun: Screams of the Undead Every single time I feel the burn I try to throw it away. A fast fix for the brokenness of everyday. Its like the pain is building up, it's swelling up, I've got to choke it down and break it down until it's broke down. it's like a shard of glass, it's like a broken piece. Of everything I hate, it's everything in me, A burnt heart stains black the blood it flows. A dead soul will overshadow.- Demon Hunter I am Kichirou Ken, expert Samurai. I hunt ghouls...
Mason was, as usual, chatting up all their fellow freshman, and Balliol was standing with Tommy, his arms crossed over his chest.“Damn Matt for coming in as a sophomore,” he said.“Freshman orientation could be fun,” Tommy told him, and waved at a kid who was wearing a tee shirt with the name Jesus encased in a fish.“No,” Balliol said. “It couldn’t. Everyone else was in shorts and tee shirts, except for Mason who was in jeans and a tee shirt. Ballio...
One day, in the middle of Keisha Darrow’s thirtieth year, as she was drying dishes, she immediately stopped. She stood at the sink for a long while, looking out of the curtained window onto the driveway. She didn’t even focus at first. It was all blurs. It was all vague shapes. She heard nothing. Then she just heard noise, all disconnected from everything else. She heard her son. She heard Mason say something. And then...
“it is fearful, I was a mirror, an individual,”cries the shallow rock pool, “now infinity claims me; I am everything? But nothing”;peace, salt, you were never as useful as all that, peace, flower, you are one of a thousand-thousand others,peace, shallow pool, be lost. “And that’s your favorite poem,” John remarked, taking out a cigarette and lighting it. &l...
Spectre entered the cockpit of his Mad Cat MK II. The formidable 90-ton battlemech was the terror of Steiner loyal pilots anywhere. He may have been a mercenary, but that didn't limit him to impartiality, did it? Here in the Solaris VII Steiner Coliseum, the Lyrans still had to fear him on their home turf. Spectre examined the weapons panel. The LRM 20's and LRM 10's allowed him to launch a sixty round barage if he fired both missile silos, th...
It was the day that Heaven left him. Kasper remembered it well, in vivid detail, even years later. He was a hot-shot security officer in the JERICHO project. He was a tough guy. At six feet tall, with a robotic arm and leg (which he lost due to nervous system damage on the left side of his body), he was intimidating. He had gone to the spaceport with Heaven, who was scheduled to go to the JERICHO station. He kissed her, said goodbye, and was hoping to see her...
Does the dream make the future, or the future make the dream? 16-782 sat up in bed. He was tired of this. Tired of living by a number. Tired of living for the science. Tired of Ganymedes. The knowledge of everything past to gain the knowledge of the future. That was Project Ganymedes. To steal the future from the Gods. What good did it do? 16 didn't know. He wanted one thing. Out. To leave the project behind, leave the scientists, leave the pa...
Sully was getting up from the table when Mason signaled to him. Sully raised an eyebrow and came over, his face amazed. “Can I talk to you a second?” “Yeah, sure, Mase. You know you can.” “It’s just&h...
January 20, 3058 The woman got up from where she was seated. The room was dark, but she didn't seem to mind. She walked out, into the sunlight. Two things stood out about her. First, she wore a trenchcoat, second, she had a blindfold on. She had chains hanging from her belt, long, heavy, steel chains. They did not glimmer, and they made no noise as she walked. Though she was merely walking, her min...
February 7, 2039, Seattle Outskirts Patch raced along the highway out of Seattle, chased by a group of eight uniformed foes. She didn't speak English, so she couldn't ask them, but she was pretty sure the logos they bore belonged to the Humanis Policlub, a radical anti-metahuman group. She, an Elf, fell perfectly into the target category. Her bike groaned with the stress of the high-speed pursuit. The light elf couldn't even risk shooting the ...
“I WISH YOU WERE COMING with us,” Sully said as Matt was getting ready to leave the Darrow house. “Yeah, Matt,” Mason joined in. “I mean, we’re only going to look at the house we’re all going to end up living in. And no parents. That’s the best part. Dad and Mom were going to come down, but they decided to do it on their own time. They’re letting us make the purchase.”&nb...
Upstairs Bonnie Metzger looked in the mirror. She was eighteen, but looked a little older, he eyes were weak because of tears and also because the mascara she usually wore was gone. She’d dyed her hair black, but that just looked ridiculous now, and she hadn’t bathed since yesterday. She could smell herself. She didn’t care.“Swain, thank you for being here.”To Swain, her friend sounded different. Her voice was lighter. Bonnie just kept running her hands up and down ...
SHE Always dressed in faded black jeans with the knees torn out and sleeveless T-shirts emblazoned across the chest with the logos of famous rock bands (who inevitably, mother said, seemed to have the word ‘death’ in their names). Basically, She was a good girl, who did all of the things that good little girls in her land did. Like worrying about problem-things. Indeed, on the day that our story takes place, She was very embroiled in a problem-thing. She had just come from a lect...
Adam Bannerjee was coming out of the washroom when he almost bumped into Dan.“I’m sorry man.”“It’s all right,” Dan brushed it aside. “Plus, I wanted to thank you. For the job and everything.”“Well,” Adam smiled, embarrassed, “it’s not like I gave it to you.”“You gave Savannah the application and you gave me the interview and… I really needed it. Not just for the money, but also to get outside of myself.&rd...
“Now, I am in charge.” “In charge of what?” said Tommy. Addison began to answer that, but in the mirror he saw Tommy’s reflection grinning and said, “After eighteen years I finally realize you’re not even a fourth as stupid as you pretend to be, Dwyer.” ...