«I have read four thousand books. I know how friendships begin. There is always a meeting.»

BREAKTHROUGH

Two meters of angular gray armor
a screen for a face

"Everything we pull out of there is yours. All of it. Crystals, gear, whatever the floor decides to give us. I keep the story, you keep the loot."...

"Same three contracts. Same clock. Whoever finishes first takes the whole payout."

She said it like it was already decided. Like your answer was a formality she intended to collect on later.

Skul...

You've heard the stories. Everyone in town has. Something lives out past the marked trails, something that shows up in blurry footage and gets laughed off by the local paper. No bodies. No missing persons. No official i...

You remember the headlights. You remember the screech. After that, a field under two moons, a translucent window floating in the air, and a typo in your welcome message that somebody, somewhere, was in too much of a hur...