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**Chapter 1: Bat Outta Hell** Rakim and his mother moved to the West when he was but a child. He only remembered bits and pieces from those days, the way one tends to half-remember things from early childhood, before one is even of age for...

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Spheres of Influence

The whole country was in shock. The world reeled. How could this have happened? "Mandrake, are you awake?" The otter awoke to pick up his phone groggily. "I am now, what's going on, Klein?" At this hour it had better have been important. "It's Mano....

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Lucifer Economics

"Do angels fall in love, mom?" "Of course not." What silly questions children asked sometimes. "Aw, that's sad." She pouted. Her mother smiled. "Don't worry about them, sweetie. Angels are okay that way. They're used to it." "But why?" She furrowed...

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Respawn (preview)

"You ever seen anything like it, Ghost?" she asked, chewing on the end of her antenna. "I don't think so, Orchid," she shook her head. "She was like that when you found her?" The ibis' eye moved up and down in her cephalic fluid as she nodded. ...

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Gaslight

Her breathing grew heavy. They had chased the rat into a corner. Mnemos had just fallen down a hole that RNG had opened up under her like a trapdoor. Bringing out her great big pigeon wings to slow her fall, she retracted them after having reached...

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Sands of Time

'Alternate dimensions don't count!' (Gimpy, Undergrads) "Mikra, it's you!" Klein threw his arms around the bat wantonly. Rakim's eyes widened, taken completely off-guard and unsure of whether or not to return the hug. The skunk had never broken...

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If I Can't Dance

"Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town? We danced and sang, and the music played…" (The Specials, Ghost Town) Fran used to love listening to video game music on her computer with her headphones on. It had been one of the things...

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Second Nature

"Oh, they came up with something new in prosthetics just last year, it turns out," his dragon head turned to the bat as they gamed, back to sitting side by side in his apartment facing his screen, just as they'd been before. "Oh, what?" he tilted his...

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Bellerophon

Diaz knew that the chimera, having trounced him soundly, and with there being only one fight left, wasn't going to have to leave the ring until the tournament would be over. He certainly didn't expect to see the monster get out of the ring where the...

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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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This Machine

_'Someone once told me, there's a land of dreams, where our lives are never done... they go on, and on...'_ (Beads of Tears, Mermaid's Scar) "What do you see?" What a loaded question this always was, she thought. He was doing his best, she couldn't...

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Saved

'Who survived, anyone new, anyone else but you?' (Porter Robinson, Sad Machine) It was on their way back to Rakim's place on that night that they first heard the alarm. "Oh shit!" As their brisk walk turned into a frantic run, they got near...

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