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Book 2, Chapter 02: Three Years On, We Think
The boy was long past making his decisions of fate. The green canvas he’d wrapped around his nose and mouth had been chafing for the better part of the day, but he had finally reached town, so the...
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Book 2, Chapter 03: Just A Little Brimstone
She’d arrived at dark, and it was the men with loaded rifles that cemented Rachel’s distaste for strangers. She had been standing in the open field for almost thirty minutes, she figured, and under...
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Book 2, Chapter 04: Day Isn’t Over Yet
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever So much we don’t understand, so much we’re trying to quilt together, so much that we never will. Days, hours, and...
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Book 2, Chapter 05: The Flavor of a Ruse
Marcus had always thought of gambling as a fool’s exercise, and this was his usual justification for losing at cards. “That’s three of the same shape and color,” quipped Gordius. “That means I claim...
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Book 2, Chapter 06: Stay Safe, Stay Quiet
I begin my day with calisthenics, then soon after, I start withdrawing my own blood. Without an accurate view of the sun, my internal clock is sufficient to ensure I awake properly, however, the...
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Book 2, Chapter 07: Let Us Do The Numbers
To enjoy fishing, a body didn’t require much by way of supplies—but water was a good start. In two old chairs sat two old men, Eloy and Emmett, twins by birth. The creaky old barn served up a good dose...
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Book 2, Chapter 08: The Devil Pulls Six-Guns
None of this felt real. Abranyah ran her palms over her jacket, the same brown duster she’d been wearing since taking on the mantle of sheriff. It was night, sort of, but everything was covered in a...
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Book 2, Chapter 09: Now We’re Crazy Together
Vagueness and the inevitable questions it created only frustrated Rachel, and she had decided that her current predicament was simply one spot too many. “Sorry, from up here it sounded like you said...
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Book 2, Chapter 10: You’re Looking At Him
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever Let us be practical. Most bodies who wander in and out of their day, they do it while accepting a relative amount...
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Book 2, Chapter 11: Those Who Hunt You
Unlike most in the barren, Barabbas was unconditional. Marcus, Yerses, and Devil were still asleep, the trio lying around the smolders of the previous night’s fire—the two decoy fires still within...
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Book 2, Chapter 12: There’s No Road
With a shriek and a rumble, the black car awoke. Rachel breathed a sigh of relief. She tested the clutch pedal and pushed the gear shifter into a variety of patterns, then held her thumb out of the...
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Book 2, Chapter 13: And So I Give You Back
The day had started to stretch on, and there were always more questions. The animals were silent, distanced at the far end of the property near Urcent’s odorous work barn, and everyone else was out in...
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Book 2, Chapter 14: Reserves of Mercy
.2201 I met the most interesting man today. He sleeps at the fire while I write this, another few inches of bulk to my daily carry, but I find the exercise of keeping a journal cathartic. His name is...
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Book 2, Chapter 15: Pray For The Devil
“I have every confidence in his ability to avoid a well deserved death,” said Abranyah. She only considered the words after she had said them, surprised that she had actually meant them. Marcus shook...
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Book 2, Chapter 16: The Thick of Things
Rachel stepped back into the church and spat on the floor. “Well we’ve got lights again, no thanks to you,” she said. “In the movies when they siphon gas out of a car, they never throw up. Guess who...
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Book 2, Chapter 17: Preparing Buckets
This wasn’t the first time that something had tried to kill Abranyah. It was, however, the first attempt with a cannon. … Tincture, Book 2, Chapter Eighteen Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter...
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Book 2, Chapter 18: I’m Not Really Here
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever Much has been mired in speculation of the burnouts, most of it the mealy speech of a drunkard, or on occasion...
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Book 2, Chapter 19: Amen All The Same
The tanker was always a curiosity for Rachel. “What are you looking for?” she asked. “You said you had an idea?” Arachal was bent over the front seats of his black Mustang and rifling through the glove...
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Book 3, Chapter 01: Carry Us In Pursuit
Old splinters whistle. Everything across The Scar has aged long past the reek of decay, more so worn, faded, and abused by the transient miscellany that wandered through it over and over and over....
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Book 3, Chapter 02: King of the Game
This was the kind of fruitless nonsense that permeated The Scar—a seeming irregularity of principle and purpose to things. A body could rub a book to ash in their fingers. They could then take a step...
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