The five of them sat around the small table in the living room, Harry, Abigail, Yuri, Ralph and Yanny as well. The sun had already set. It had been two days since their escape from the Taiyō Electrics industrial complex. As planned, they had escaped through the roof, contacted Ralph by walkie-talkie, and he had […]
The three men in white lab coats immediately stopped what they were doing and looked alarmed toward the door as the TRAP team burst into the lab with guns drawn.“Get down on the floor and don’t move,” Harry yelled. While two of them followed his order, the third ran to the north wall where some […]
From his position, he could see the car with the big plastic sausage on the roof coming around the corner. His mind could not process what exactly he saw with his dimly lit eyes. Crouching, he sat in the drainpipe under the curb, holding onto a grate with his bony hands to keep from slipping. […]
The enormous magnification of the binoculars gave her a clear view of the entrance to the company grounds, even from the flat roof of the parking garage a short distance away. She fished the walkie-talkie out of her backpack and pressed the talk button. Of course, she had disinfected it thoroughly beforehand.“Can you hear me?” […]
Abigail tapped away at the keyboard with practice and speed. Colorful masses of text appeared on the screen, which she scanned with a focused gaze for useful information. The Teletext Internet was based on the transmission of television signals and could generally be used via an additional socket in combination with a normal cable connection. […]
It was early afternoon. So far it had been so hot that the four of them had preferred not to leave the apartment. “Twenty-seven… twenty-eight… twenty-nine…” Yuri gasped, tensing his muscles. The apartment was small and space was limited. A membership in a nearby gym was out of the question, simply because of the cost, […]
The three of them had gathered for breakfast around the small table in front of the television in the living room. Abigail rubbed her aching back, for the night on the sagging mattress had been anything but restful. She held a half-eaten jam sandwich in one hand and a cup of improvised instant coffee in […]
At this point it should be briefly explained where exactly our heroes are, because the reader has already been confronted with a couple of confusing details. For this, however, it is necessary to go further, to describe at least roughly the cosmic dimensions that led to the fact that these three different characters could meet […]
If it was true that the dream of beauty would be born out of the womb of ugliness, the three of them had probably arrived at the epicenter of a new vision of glory and splendor. The whole neighborhood was filled with the stench of sewers, car exhausts, and the leftovers of all sorts of […]