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1) Friends
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Below the pristine mountains of Portugal's countryside, a war rages on. Then, one day, it comes to Abrir's home. Not the war, but an official caravan, black against the pale sky.Thrown together in a dismal war camp, imported refugees share nothing but their suffering.No common culture. No common tongue. Confusion, and no more.Abrir manages to finds a few friends, but it doesn't last.One by one, they take their lives and leave Arbrir."I am the last...
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Chalu's coming of age ceremony approaches. Chalu finds it so much easier to stare into a dark cavern pond instead of prepare.
"If you go diving in, the end will come rising up to meet you," goes the saying. A proverb.
Chalu leans forward, tempted, drawn in.
A voice breaks the silence: "Cha cha! There you are!"
Will Chalu head the call and return to the people? Or is the plunge into the unknown too tempting to say no to?
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Coming out really threw a wrench in Jordy and Lyle's relationship. Becoming human refugees in an alien organization called the Anti-Scouts made it worse. Can a simple game set things right? Or will virtual reality make reality worse? Jordy logs in to the Dream Trust Test find out.
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Everyone thought the world was going to end in the same way the universe began.A big bang.Nothing left but smoke and ash. The sun swallowed whole. Mass extinctions; everything dead. The earth left a lifeless rock of lost dreams and crushed hope. Darkness spreading across the globe, reaching up thick fingers to blot out the stars. The world converted into a mass grave, home to nothing but billions of angry ghosts.That's not how it happened.You're living...
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In an unkind world, Ark wanders the land looking for...what? Can't recall. Holes in the land, holes in their memory, a scar from a hole in their hand?
A dust cloud kicks up. Another rat-tag group of fools lost in the dust. They approach one another. Another cliched exchange. Only this time, something's different.
Ark remembers things...
If Ark joins their numbers, where will the journey take them? What hidden truths will they find? What kind of...
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A stray lightning bolt slices the sky. The glint of a space tether's nanoscopic line flickers into sight.A high end officiate in a neat suit steps from the elevator with a pocket full of special drugs.The plan? A deception of nano-robotic limitations.The goal? Freedom from corporate bullshit.The twist? Grapefruit, just a little bitter.Will Charcoal get the sample they've come to District 6 for or will Lithograph refuse to play along?
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Gull wants one thing in life. To feel alive.But in this district, the sun never shines. Buildings clutter out the sky. Dirt clings to everything. Life hides in the cracks. Gull doesn't know, but suspects. If only there were a way to peek in between.Even briefly."Take Tranquility," Fox the trusted colleague advises.Once you go Tranq- you never go back.A single bar in all the district sells it. Specific behaviors are necessary to buy it. Gull agrees...
9) Power Play
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Jordin and Pepper lay lazily in a park when the lights go out. All of them. A blackness opens up that fear fills with every nightmare."Could be a power outage.""There's no light for hundreds of miles."The city tries to stay calm. On every mind, a single question arises. Will the light ever come again? And if it does, what ruin will it reveal?Rei Rosenquist writes the Broken Circle stories from a dark place, holding a black hope close to a faintly...
10) Ready to Fly
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Jun lives in Seattle. But, on a business trip to Hawai'i, they bumped into Kai. Sparks flew. But, life's current pulled Jun back home. Back to polyamous partner Mariza, and back to rescued parrot Koko. With a heavy heart, they left. Only, once back home, Mariza hits it off with Kai over the phone. A plan is hatched. Will Jun be ready to fly back when the time comes? Will Kai be waiting if they are?
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Marble lives within the shell, surrounded by life but no friends. The world outside looks so big, so green, so alive. Marble wants desperately to venture outside!A break occurs. The shell, no longer perfect.Marble takes a chance, gathers resources, and ventures outside.
12) She Sings Again
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When tragedy strikes, Luminko takes best friend Argo back to the place they met. There, in the clearing, some new lesson awaits. But, has Luminko come to learn it too late?
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