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PART 1 CHAPTER 1 “Sir, I need you to sit down right now!” The flight attendant’s voice was a thin, brittle thing, stretched…
PART 1: THE WHISPERS I heard them before I saw them. The acoustics in the corridors of Memorial Hospital were unforgiving, carrying voices…
TITLE: THE GHOST OF HANGAR 3 Part 1: In the Navy, they teach you that the most dangerous weapon is the one you…
PART 1 “Cuffer.” The word hung in the air like a death sentence. It wasn’t a command; it was an insult wrapped in…
The air in Marquee was thick with the scent of money. It smelled of expensive perfume clinging to silk, of aged scotch breathing…
PART 1 CHAPTER 1 The heat on the Coronado grinder is a physical thing. It has weight. It presses down on your shoulders…
PART 1 Chapter 1: The Performance The automatic doors of St. Joseph Medical Center slid open with a mechanical sigh, admitting the humid,…
PART 1 Dawn in Willow Creek, Nebraska, doesn’t break; it bleeds. It spills gold and crimson over the rolling hills, lighting up the…
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