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He took an overly dainty sip of his volcano. "Yes, I've been keeping tabs on your thumb wrestling career. The Fickle Thumb is a great ring name, by the way." She deflated. He knew.
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Thrack Morton did question why the CDC were sticking their pipets into our culinary experiments. We would have been surprised if he hadn't. Thrack was like that. Monster souffle?
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Norway, where he was only required half the year. "What a turn-off," the old woman groused as she watched Lampman's boat sail into the northern sun. "Never mind," said Halogen Man
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Who ever it was who said that Ped Xing was a halfwit was giving him too much credit. Feeling generous today, I'm going call it at 3rdwit. I'm laying my badge on that nag. So far so
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She recognized that danger that posed in the wrong hands. Mars didn't know deceit. But she did. For that is what it would be in the eyes of Humanity. She was possessed by Mars.
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She had the Earth surrounded my her First Martian Fleet. A fleet that hadn't existed 9 months before. Using technology the Builders didn't know. Martian technology with human Will.
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When on the first day of the ninth month Earth heard again from EJ Camacho, Queen of Mars from close orbit. Earth hadn't seen her coming. They didn't know they should have been.
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The chroniclers of the time and even as late as 2036, noted there being a case that by discovering that the whole planet was alive but not visible in the normal human spectrum, she
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They said her thought patterns tickled their mirror mind like sands through an unmarked rice paper path to discovery that fire can be found in both arms. To carry the burn you must
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She and her new subjects were still learning each other. She knew what was coming this way. She was the lucky one to meet them. But she also had made them her burden, her penance.
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The first thing was to shut down all communications to Earth. She knew the protocols. They assume her dead after 8 months. 8 months to build a Martian Fleet from scratch. Double
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Taking that first step on the Red Planet had put in place that cinch that told her she was Home. She heard Mars kneel to her. She KNEW the true Martians. She also brought Mankind.
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further than even my great-great-father's sister's nephew ever raised a hammer. The poor man had lost his shoulder during battle at Bull Run. They said the starving Rebs ate it. He
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The screams of the Onions cleared the copse, two rivers, and a lost Ozzy tourist who though the was in Thailand. He was really still in Hoboken. You know you are Timmy. Thailand is
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The human sequence we had on the non was from the subversive branch of the Jenni Craig Witnesses. They proselytized conflicting diet regimes. Making loot from both ends of the sau
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The human spaceship, alone, wiped out the 23 vessel Praetorian Fleet and caught the Sun. The Sun laughed at being caught. That laugh, that space jam laugh... The consequences are w
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Billy Thorpe drilled his message through my brain. Straight to the lizard brain. It was a warning about the Children of the Sun. They were coming. We could be their children if we
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A plumb job it is. Being Secretary of Space Migration. You get to skim your vig off of billions of dollops spent by the World Government to evacuate the dying planet. Pro quid pros
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What are the odds?! We haven't seen each other since we were in the Field Marshal Barr's Department of Justice during the Dakota Anschluss or 2023. He had used his NDA to wrangle
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I can't say we were friends in high school but we also never had any beef. We knew each other. We hung out with the same people. We were cool with not caring for the other. Decades