Stories tagged “Beyond these walls”
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Beyond These Walls
Coughing smoke and blood, she stumbled into a culvert. A glance behind was accompanied by a prayer that she hadn’t been followed. Firemen were probably just arriving at the complex – her escape would be unconfirmed until they gained control...
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Toward the Dawn
She had a friend out there, somewhere. A friend who spoke to her in the same non-voice of her own thoughts. She hadn’t questioned this. She hadn’t complained when the voice told her how to cause so much destruction. She had wanted so much t...
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An Unexpected Barrier
Timothy glanced left and right from her cover. None of the lights ahead revealed guards or motion. The arch glimmered in the center of a twenty-foot-high enclosure wall: the only way through. The only way out. Drawing ragged, painful breaths of air, Ti...