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«Information is like water or electricity. It will flow along the path of the least resistance, through whatever opening it can find.»
«The Book of Paradox» by Sassafras the Sage
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SHARDS BOOK I : CRYPTIC
Seven hundred years in the future, the ice caps have melted, sea levels have risen, and several coastal cities have become seaports.
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Dec 12, 20219 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter One
After open contact occurred between humans and extraterrestrial Hybrids, technology was introduced to Earth that proved the existence of...
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Dec 11, 202115 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Two
The Empire has cast a shadow over our lives and given birth to a great irony: That we must search within that shadow to find the light that
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Dec 10, 202110 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Three
Strangely, after The Landing, it took much longer for humans to accept the Hybrids into their society than it took to accept the Grey bei...
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Dec 9, 202110 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Four
Information is like water or electricity. It will flow along the path of least resistance, through whatever opening it can find.
Paul
Dec 8, 202111 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Five
When Hybrids were first created, most had no understanding of individual initiative since all Hybrids at the time were raised on ships by...
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Dec 7, 20218 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Six
“Disobedience is death.”
The First Decree of Xos-Asura
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Dec 6, 20215 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Seven
Banshees existed in human literature long before Hybrids came to this world. But little is known about them beyond their function as harb...
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Dec 5, 20217 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Eight
Dusk,
stretches forth fingers of darkness
over the landscape of the living
as light dims and dies, heralding the night
that ...
Paul
Dec 4, 202114 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Nine
Red Rabbit,
Red Rabbit,
where you inhabit,
up is down
and left is right,
dark by day
you shine at night.
Rabbit Red,
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Dec 3, 202113 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Ten
People are often in a rush to complete processes, finish projects, accomplish goals and arrive at destinations, thinking all the while th...
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Dec 2, 202118 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Eleven
The imagination has no limits other than those you imagine it has.
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Dec 1, 202118 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Twelve
After humans became used to the Hybrid presence on Earth, they were given a list of all humans whose genetic material had been used by th...
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Nov 30, 202111 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Thirteen
In any relationship, conflict often begins, not from what is actually said, but from what is left unsaid.
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Nov 29, 20219 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Fourteen
Stories of Earth’s ancient wars are legion. One story in particular, the tale of the Trojan Horse, teaches the lesson that things are not...
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Nov 28, 202111 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Fifteen
When Artificial Intelligence was finally achieved, we came to understand that it wasn’t artificial at all. Rather, we had simply created...
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Nov 27, 202116 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Sixteen
A thing is both a single system and a collection of components. The astonishing fact is that identical components, like subatomic particle..
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Nov 26, 202121 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Seventeen
In the ancient story ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ Alice falls down a rabbit hole in pursuit of a White Rabbit wearing a pocket watch who lament...
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Nov 25, 20219 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Eighteen
The ability to shape-shift has nothing to do with a rearrangement of matter in the classic sense, but everything to do with parallel real...
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Nov 24, 202113 min read
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SHARDS : CRYPTIC, Chapter Nineteen
Seven hundred years of peace, while allowing Earth to expand and prosper in ways no human would have believed possible prior to The Landi...
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Nov 23, 202113 min read
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