The Lady Was Red

Still meditating on this cold comfort as he watched the soldiers picking up what remained of their comrades who'd been too close to the blast site, everybody too busy to notice one stray street rat, cheddar turned first his ears and then his head as

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One Thousand Snakes

The enemy no longer fought with the skilled knowledge of a leader, but with the feverish, vicious zeal of street rats, of prisoners who no longer had anything to lose. like cartel soldiers after the golden family is gone and everything is on fire.

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Lone Wolves

Would she see some filthy street rat in some distant age and remember the homeless vagrant who'd wandered into her bar? then he realized that he cared about how she thought about him.

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Empty Heart

You wake up. And like every morning when you do, you wish you could go back to sleeping your days away like you used to. But your body's grown to reject the long days of sleeping so much longer than necessary and wills you awake without your...

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