Tag: tension
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The Rose
It is one of those hot summer days Daniel will dream about when autumn comes. Daniel is ensconced in his favourite garden recliner beside his little table: beer, book and biscuits; all, he tells himself, he needs from life. Beside him, the gnarled bush rose his wife so loves and tends that it never…
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The Patient Sea
THe Patient Sea Another ‘short’ from my archives, but a quite special one for me, for reasons I can’t expand upon here. I hope you enjoy it. The dusk had reached a late, frosted luminosity, as yet too bright to submit to the superiority of the car’s headlights. A red line topped the western hills…
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Continuum – Episode Twenty-Nine: Time to Choose.
In the previous episode: Acting upon Hasuga’s demand that she remove a book from the City’s Inner Library, Alanee takes the elevator deep into the rock below the city, where she finds the sanctuary of the Book of Lore guarded by Karkus, aged progenitor of The City itself. In stealing the book she is discovered…
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