Astra Ascending_Excerpt from the Diary of Dr. Y. Smith_The Australia Project_Dead Signal
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Astra Ascending
At the alignment of the planets, when moon had eclipsed sun, Carina Allister had been born and her Destiny was set in motion. Carina’s Destiny, rare as it was, was that she would be consumed by the moon on her 16th birthday. What did this mean? Carina had never known what to make of her Destiny. Her parents knew, the royal advisors knew, her grandmother knew. Everyone understood what this meant, to be consumed by the moon. Consumed. It didn’t sound particularly vicious or malignant, Carina’s grandmother always spoke about how it sounded www.onedoor.cclike acceptance, like a new beginning. Carina didn’t kn...
Excerpt from the Diary of Dr. Y. Smith
The first reports of a novel rabies virus came out of China in December. It was a handful of cases, all linked to a wet market in the north of the country, and the descriptions of the disease seemed farfetched and designed as clickbait: a mysterious wasting disease, a brain eating virus, uniform fatality. Skeptical, I chalked up the descriptions in the popular press to a combination of hysteria, xenophobia, and greed, and waited for the medical literature to set the record straight. The first case series was published shortly thereafter. The authors described five patients, all young and pre...
The Australia Project
Waiting in the neat, bright room that they had provided for him somehow felt worse than waiting in the decrepit cell before the final day of his trial months prior. That dark, small space outfitted with barely rusted bars and cold, damp floors hadn’t felt nearly as terrifying as this room where he was now planted in a corner with his knees firmly against his chest. Likely, it was only the implication of what was to come next that terrified him so, and not the vase of yellow roses. Back then in that cell, he had thought he would only be going to prison, something he had been resigned to the mom...
Dead Signal
Five stories under the Chthonic Labs Alpha-1 facility, in a chilly glass-partitioned room, Guy and Deana decided to take a break. Beyond the glass was the observation chamber, walled in cold steel. There lay fifty-four human corpses in a space no bigger than a cargo container; some were weeks old, others were months, but most had been dead for years. The chamber was dark, and nothing could be seen except fifty-three little red lights jumbled around near the floor. With some input codes and the flick of a switch, he could make all of them turn green.His hand went to her breast and tore it out...