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FICTION - The Awakening. v01

FICTION - The Awakening. v01

FICTION - The Awakening. v01
AZA
Published on: 04/11/2025

The story of the Cypherpunks... and the price of freedom: A razor-sharp utopia built on lies vs. a rebellion buried in code. When the system glitches, Syntra must choose. Hey. Are you ready for this?

Fiction
FICTION - Sagas of the Lincoln County War

FICTION - Sagas of the Lincoln County War

FICTION - Sagas of the Lincoln County WarPatrick Leifson
Published on: 11/09/2025

A city will wear you like a pair of old cowhide boots. Your feet slip in, comfortably, since their caresses have worn in the leather just so, and now they are a part of you. Such thoughts preoccupied Pat Garrett as his train rolled into Montreal Central Station.

Fiction
FICTION - Ringcut

FICTION - Ringcut

FICTION - RingcutKristina Warlen
Published on: 05/08/2025

Exit moved in silence through the black zone. The road beneath his boots was fractured and blistered from a century of stress fractures, chemical erosion, and neglect. Every surface held the residue of failure. Surveillance nodes blinked faintly in the walls above him. Pale red eyes stared from cracked housing. They still tracked motion and still read heat. Power to the district had been cut hours ago. The Network never really died. It idled, quiet and watchful. It waited for patterns to reestablish.

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