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What had happened was…”, Troy began, betraying his Georgia country boy roots. Milla cringed. She was so sick of his antics, excuses, and the way he stressed the accent thinking that it made him seem cute to her.
He was...
As Miranda's eyes fixated on the blinking red lights of the Level 5 Vernacular Lock, a surge of adrenaline coursed through her veins. The cold, unyielding metal of a gun pressed against the back of her scalp.
Glancing at the...
Stephanie read the address out loud, hoping that this time, it would ring a bell. Sadly, just like every time before now, she came up blank. In her almost fifteen years of being a delivery person, she had never...
Leaving Pakistan, she smiled back at the no-nonsense woman at the security checkpoint who waved her through, “Mashallah, your outfit is beautiful, sister!”, she exclaimed. “I hope you come back soon.” She thought how 10 years ago, she didn’t...
The porter opened the caravanserai gates reluctantly. The rider was unusual.
Caravans rode on a relay. They loaded priceless porcelains and sensuous silks in crates, onto the humps of Bactrian camels, rode west for days or weeks to the nearest...
Credo in unam sanctam et pathologicam ecclesiam
The church was coming along nicely, we all thought it was. The town of Ferington had its own opinions but we always let it. It were never our business to judge no one's...
“Cap, you got a minute?”, Officer Draves asked as he poked his head in the Captain's office.
“Come in, come in”, the grey-bearded captain said. He waved them in and gestured to the two dark blue chairs in front of...
Mrs. Cartwright fed her cats taco meat on Wednesdays. On Thursdays, the cats preferred a fish of some kind; salmon during the winter, lemon glazed flounder during the summer. She long ago discovered her two cats’ preferences and consistently...
Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people
Putuo officials...
