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The Resonant

https://youtu.be/pmjkG5i8Rtc Beneath the theater stage, sealed by concrete, machines of cartilage and alloy stood still. Sonne, a small droid labeled S-027, pulsed once. His visor lit up, illuminating the drifting dust in the hermetic atmosphere. A flare moved through his chest, reaching the cracked ceramic of his voicebox. It trembled. Then, static. Then— The sound was a C#. His chest seams glowed soft orange, casting light across the cables and discarded theater artifacts where he lay. Across the vault, Zee, […]

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SciFi

Sixty Minutes Dust

Jared stood in front of his childhood apartment building. His hand sweated, holding the detonator. It was the last hour before darkness—the time when the city was tinted with a golden tone, while the evening sun set above the horizon. But also, it was when he decided to take a last look at the only building that still stood upright. Once he activated the detonators buried in each wall and floor, he’d have exactly sixty minutes before the explosion erased […]

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Echoes of the Void

Darius Kaelen gasped sharply, panting and strained. In the dim cockpit of his elegant diplomatic vessel, the oxygen gauge level was dropping down, an undeniable reminder of an imminent death. The constant alarm piped up in his ears, mingling with the bitter flavor of desperation. The viewscreen quivered. Before him, things seemed to be far too difficult to resolve. The oppressive emptiness of dark space was there, and this—a solitary asteroid drifting silently in the void, marred by a rusted […]

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