Leviathan 01: Name of the Game

He wonders what it would have been like to be born back during the twenty-sixties, when atheism was such a popular fad the vatican had been annexed. he supposes that it comes in cycles.

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The Preserver

Boko's living quarters had looked like nothing else that Klein had ever seen. A concealed trapdoor in the forest floor had opened into an extremely large open underground room which served as the chameleon's home. There were stairs on the walls and...

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Personal Space

Brazil hadn't been an easy place to live for the people who already lived there. It hadn't been going to be easy for them having moved there either. Slavery may have been gone but it had left its marks, as the street urchins roaming the favelas...

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Worship

Klein had been a weird kid. He hadn't paid enough attention in class, even though he'd done well enough overall. He'd never cared for team sports. The other kids had made fun of him for being a skunk a lot. His parents hadn't been quite as bad as...

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Join The Dance

The room that Klein walked into was bare and white, like an empty vessel. There were two life-sized mannequins resting at its center, laying half on top of each other in a heap with strings folding down around them. As he approached them, the strings...

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Promised Land

Eli's parents had disowned her for having moved away to the Middle East with Mano, but Eli hadn't cared. If anything, she'd been only too glad to cut them out of her life as well. Mano missed her parents sometimes, but children grew up, pursued love...

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Midnight in Central Park

atheism was one of those odd things for gods. there were christian gods, hindu gods, shinto gods, even native american gods, but no atheist gods. charles darwin, no matter what some people might think, was not a god.

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Fishers of Men

'How cheerfully he seems to grin...' (How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll) Ammut had been left on the doorstep of a Brazilian orphanage before he'd been old enough to have known how to talk. He'd been far too young to have even remembered...

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Saltwater

Mano had tried to have been just as optimistic about them moving from the Middle East to Brazil as she'd been about them having moved from India to the Middle East in the first place. Cephalopods were relentlessly curious creatures, always exploring...

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Into The Abyss

'Let me hammer him today!' (Pink Floyd, The Trial) Mano's path led her back up out of the water and into a corridor that led her to a rowboat on a canal. Approaching the rowboat to sit down in it and pick up its oars, a chill went down her spine...

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Deep Blue

He finally noticed her from above the pier as he flew overhead. Scylla was tied up to a pole, plunged so deep into the earth under the shallows that went back and forth between high and low tide between the shore and ocean that there was no way that...

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Face The World

The raft on the canal between the rows of cow carcasses led Mano to a white door with a scale carved in, Libra-like. There was no doorknob, but one of the scale's sides was high while the other one was low. Looking closely, she saw that the high one...

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