WalloidThe Black Star Once there was a race of beings called the Walloid. The Walloid were all one Walloid, and lived on their planet known as Walla. The planet Walla was unique because it had no colors. No greens, blues, reds, or even whites! Everything was black, or a shade thereof. Buildings were black squares stenciled to the sky, the Walloid themselves completely devoid of pigment. The Walloid spent their days working in color factories, manufacturing colors for all the people of other worlds. Every color known to man was forged in the heart of the WalloidWalloid
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“You're sure this girl is up to it, Milo?” Detective Cyrus Kincaid always doubted my methods.
“Sure as anything. She's the best psychic medium on the-”
“As much as I appreciate the compliment, could we get down to work here, boys?” Jezebel sat at the end of the long table, her legs dangling off the high backed dining room chair. The table itself was blank except for a crystal ball in the very middle, between Kinky and myself, and some overturned cards laid out in front of Jezebel.
She was the best
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I set my head down against the stones of the well. The clouds loomed in the sky, apocalyptic ghosts wishing me ill.
I didn't need them. I needed to think. I needed to make sense of everything, the ghosts in the expanse, old man Alderstone's death, the job, where it went wrong. I sipped from my cast metal flask. Cheap whiskey I bought a week ago. I coughed. I couldn't put up with this shit.
I looked up and saw my daughter, sitting on the neighbor's porch. She had been playing in their backyard with the
Expanse ExperimentI'd never been inside the Expanse. In fact, I'd call any man who willfully enters the Expanse a fool beyond foolishness. And yet here I was, standing on the edge of the simmering caverns, half-houses ducking into the tunnels like thieves. Their roofs were rotten things, destroyed by 41 years of fire below, water above.Expanse Experiment
The whole place tanged with the pungent aroma of smoke.
“Are you sure we should go in here?” Adlai nudged me with his elbow.
I wasn't sure we should have gone this far, to be honest. The earth chirped below me.
| Hello. This is a work in progress because what do I look like, a guy who isn't lazy? I only do fiction. One day, when I am a guy who is slightly less lazy, I may, *may*, try my hand at writing irreverent scribbles a la Matt Groening's Life in Hell (is Swell), but TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY. |
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