The Grand Finale_THE BOX_The Blind at the Crossroads_Anticipation Is
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The Grand Finale
I’m not from here. Not exactly. But how to explain that I jumped from another time? That my old life ended in 1896, and that my new one started nearly a century later?It’s complicated.In my former life, my brother and I were perhaps the most celebrated circus performers of our day—and not just because we were twins. We were acrobats, most famous for our high wire and flying trapeze acts, although you’d have loved to have seen us on horseback. As kids, we were virtually fearless—always climbing something treacherous; doing aerial backflips off any and all surfaces; launching off each other’s s...
THE BOX
The Great Awakening that brought about tremendous changes to the world came in stages and phases to most humans. Sadly, for many, it came through loss of loved ones and things. Many people died and many material things disintegrated or simply became outmoded and valueless. Steadily transformation occurred through life’s tenacity and humans’ ability to adapt.Sabrina’s awakening came in both a mundane and mysterious way. One day on her doorstep there appeared without warning a package addressed to her with no return address and no postal stamps. Hesitant, but intrigued, she brought the package i...
The Blind at the Crossroads
Lara stepped across creaking wood into the heart of the old shack. She didn’t want to bwww.onedoor.cce there as much as any person who’d come before her hadn’t wanted to be there. Here, in the old and rotting shack lived an oracle, a witch, a collector, really a woman known as many things by many different people. Lara preferred the name that was most true and just so happened to be what the woman called herself. Scavenger. The only true disciple of the rotting god, she had built a home for herself in the rotting remains of what might have been a bakery once. Both Scavenger and the building she occupied wer...
Anticipation Is
Anticipation IsWill is half asleep and doesn’t brace himself against the impact. It is his good fortune. The driver is thrown against the steering wheel and it is now pressing on his chest and restricting his breathing. Ian’s head is whipped sideways and cracks the passenger window, knocking him out. The Range Rover comes to a stop with its front wheels dangling over the edge of a rock wall. A hundred feet below runs the Bartang River, a pearlescent ribbon of water and ice that has traveled from the Alai Range.“Holy shit,” Will cries out.The Range Rover cracks and hisses and the bearings in on...