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The man’s beard parted where his mouth hung open.That was a good sign.But the real note of progress showed in his eyes.The fear.The submission.“I’ll ask you again, what’s your name?”“Alexei Volkov,” the man replied with a wincing eye on the side with the missing...

Charlie had been tying knots since the age of three and he knew twice as many as any mortal man. He knew the best ones for building spring traps. He knew the best ones for stretching hides. And he knew the best ones for keeping an impressively strong man tied to a...

Charlie had found him half-dead and gibbering like a madman. But whereas the man couldn’t stop yapping before, now he wouldn’t say a word. He’d gone quieter than a nun at a nudie bar.

BANG. The forty-five caliber bullet exited the muzzle at a speed of over a thousand feet per second. Less than a second later, it punched through the gnarled bark of a Sitka Spruce tree and sent out a shower of splinter...

The old ones tell stories of a time before the scourge when girls were born just as often as boys. They say a lot of crazy stuff that no one believes. A time before the scourge among them. Like there ever was a time different than now.