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The day she died, an ad was run.
And you saw it, everyone did.
Because it was a perfectly composed ad, with a perfectly chosen photo. Perfect clickbait headline. Not a word out of place. And it had a 30% click-through rate. For the mortuary.
That service was the most highly-attended event the mortuary had ever held. And pre-sales of burial plots and cremations spiked. All bought by impulse.
Yet the mortuary
...At the beginning was The Games. Because they were running out of people.
The gangs were killing each other off too fast. And the city was running out of money to keep them all on free food and free medical.
The Games put everyone in the city to work. They competed with each other for production bonuses. Citizens that didn't work, hardly ate. There was a Plan, and the Game was part of the Plan.
In this plan, the
...3) Ham & Chaz
Finding out you're immortal as a teenager can set your world on fire.
But finding out at the same time that just getting angry could kill everyone around you can dampen that pretty quickly.
Who wants to live forever if you can't get close enough to someone that they can piss you off and live to see the next sunrise with you?
Meaning - it was time to take a road trip to sort things out.
When my uncle offered
...4) Her Eyes
He looked into her eyes - and forgot everything about himself.
He'd done something that night, but couldn't remember.
And she had left him like that. Until she returned as a Homeland Security agent to save him from two cops who wanted him for questioning.
Now on the run, in disguise, his memory wasn't returning very fast. Josh depended on this mysterious Rosa to get and keep him out of harm's way as they traveled
...5) The Lazurai
An unintended result of a terrorist bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai could kill a person without touching them.
The government made it worse by their experiments. All the children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their powers increased. And they found they couldn't be stopped.
Chuck hears a rumor of one coming his way, to his remote way station on the highway. But he can't leave
...I had been in that stone wall for decades, alone on purpose.
Not lonely.
Waiting.
Humankind needed to evolve past what they had done to create me. I was willing to wait - as long as it took.
Because to re-emerge would mean to again threaten all humans I contacted.
The very reason all of my kind had submerged into hiding was to save humankind from ourselves, from the virus within us.
While
...An Epic 4-Day Road Trip and Fantastical Semi-Memoir
Living life is nothing that any moron or better couldn't accomplish, even without setting one's mind to it. The trick is to do something with that life. Or live several at once, so that one could at least be a success in one of them.
Herbert, having endured his mid-life crisis with all the aplomb possibly available to him, now was set on making a new life for himself.
...Beware Your Dreams
"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
~Lao Tse
"The longer the night lasts, the more
...TO DREAM OF TALKING WOLVES AND CROWS might be strange to some.
To act on what they tell you to save some wild pups in an abandoned building with an unknown menace threatening your life - well, that might be crazy.
Kelly liked to read. And she had an active imagination. So talking to coyotes and crows in her dreams wasn't too much for her.
Until they wanted her to risk her own life to save some abandoned wild
...The ship was storm-tossed, no one at the helm, its sails tattered and ragged.
Unless the couple got to the ship's wheel soon, they and the ship would be destroyed.
It seemed years before the couple could struggle against the rocking waves and gusting wind to reach the quarterdeck - to at last get control over that ship's wheel.
The two of them were able to finally wrestle the ship's rudder to start pointing the
...16) The Eye In Team
The black SUV's roared around them to a stop, boxing them in.
The only choice was to comply.
It looked like there were about five government-style SUV's that surrounded the family's pickup truck and it's older camping trailer.
"I thought we were done with these guys, Rosa."
"Must be a new department that didn't get the memo."
Their boy, sitting between them on the pickup's bench seat, just closed his
...It actually helped that the hundreds of shoppers had vanished.
That meant they couldn't be shot by accident while that gang of goons chased us with their handguns.
Of course, it was now more obvious exactly where we were.
I probably had it worst - dressed in pink like a stage performer. A long dress down to my ankles, with extra wide ruffles wasn't the best thing to either run or hide in.
Yes, I left the
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