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Topher Lydon

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  1. February 2011, Benghazi, Libya I. The Fisherman The Internal Security Agency headquarters in Benghazi was a towering monument to everything Fathi Ben Ali had spent sixty-two years learning to meticulously ignore. It was a brutalist, monolithic concrete block erected in the late 1970s, its once-stark facade now stained a sickly, weeping yellow by decades of unforgiving desert wind, salt spray from the Mediterranean Sea, and the ceaseless choke of diesel exhaust. The windows were
  2. give me about five minutes and Carter's Revolution will start
  3. I've been down with the flu, so taking it easier and slowing down while I get over it.
  4. I have been meaning to go through them. It is on the list of things I have to do (renumbering)
  5. He isn't bad at his job, he just didn't see the broader picture. It's why Yani eventually becomes his boss. Some people are just better at spotting the small details in the big picture. It's that trust that Andrew has in his Quartermaster.
  6. I do like that Andrew bought Yani a Tim Hortons Mug (Kind of a rite of passage, something that says you're one of us now) Yani earned his place in this one, and he earned his mug. Dude's going to treasure that thing. Mine sits on my desk:
  7. As usual, thanks. Took a liberty as I didn't release a short this week, and I want to clear tomorrow morning's slot. Please recommend, like, review...let me know how I am doing with these They're not getting too repetitive or too... stale are they? in other words I am a bit sick today, so reassurance would be good.
  8. The subterranean levels of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service national headquarters on Ogilvie Road remained entirely agnostic to the shifting seasons on the surface. While the sprawling pine forests of eastern Ottawa were currently being buried beneath the first brutal, unforgiving blizzard of the impending winter, the climate four stories beneath the frost-hardened topsoil was meticulously maintained at a sterile, unchanging twenty degrees Celsius. The massive industrial air scrubbers
  9. February 2011. Tripoli is burning. Special Envoy Will Carter is trapped in a collapsing palace, hunted by militias and running out of time. His husband Andrew is the only thing standing between him and execution—but the city is a warzone, and the hunters are closing in. From the corridors of power in Ottawa to the burning streets of the Libyan capital, the Carters are about to discover that some wars are fought with bullets, and some are fought with everything you have.
  10. I can confirm Voss is the final crew member, she was in the vents working on her Virtual Reality bypasses. Lousy Therapist, pretty decent engineer.
  11. So very true. I have yet to come across one who isn't more broken than the patients they treat.
  12. The heavy, reinforced metal blast door at the end of the Deck Two corridor did not hiss, it did not groan, and it certainly did not yield. It stood as a silent, impenetrable monolith of cold gray steel. The manual release levers had been violently sheared off from the inside, and the underlying circuitry had been ripped into a chaotic, sparking nest of fused wires. The air in the hallway was unnaturally thin. It carried the sharp, metallic tang of failing environmental scrubbers and the di
  13. Topher Lydon

    Chapter 12

  14. Never underestimate Peter's Raccoon instincts.
  15. The polished steel doors of the elevator silently slid shut, sealing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Section Commander inside the ascending metal box with the enemy. The mechanical hum of the elevator’s drive system engaged, pulling the carriage upward through the central shaft of The Peninsula hotel. The interior of the six-by-six steel box was a masterpiece of luxury design, lined with immaculate, floor-to-ceiling mirrors that reflected the scene in infinite, terrifying iterati
  16. Look after your mental health, this one is rough
  17. Welcome back to LA Let's see how badly things get screwed up this time for Poitr
  18. CHAPTER ONE: THE RELIC The first thing Flynn O'Briain registered was the smell. Garbage. Rotting food, stale urine, the particular sour-sweet stench of industrial-grade bin bags baking in the Los Angeles sun. It was a smell he knew intimately—the smell of alleys, of crime scenes, of bodies found facedown in places no one ever looked. It was the smell of his old life, the one he'd tried to leave behind when he walked out of the LAPD and into a half-finished office building wi
  19. Love, magic, and chaos collide in this queer urban fantasy romp! When ex-cop Flynn O’Briain wakes up covered in mysterious runes with no memory of how he got there, he’s thrown into a wild chase through LA—with his snarky, fashion-obsessed fiancé Poitr in tow. Hunted by corrupt agents, dodging Hollywood disasters, and uncovering a sentient internet relic, these two disasters must survive space launches, flesh-crafting mishaps, and their own messy feelings. "Doomscroll, AMEN!" "Pray to the Algorithm, let it wash you in your sins!"
  20. It's also about leverage. The FSB operatives here know their operation is about to be exposed. Forcing Andrew, who they believe has the evidence and the money, to hand it over, is their only shot at salvaging what's left of their operation.
  21. There was an early idea to do this as a steampunk thing, but I decided just to keep some of the styling.
  22. Mr. Nibbles approves of his deployment as a Tactical Emotional Support Parasite
  23. The Zodiac limped through the absolute nothingness of Sector 4G, a region of space that the ship's corrupted navigational computer cheerfully insisted was either a dense asteroid field or a high-end corporate shopping plaza. On the bridge, the atmosphere had settled into a comfortable, exhausted malaise. The great Rat-Souffle Incident was behind them, leaving the crew slightly lighter in body weight but significantly more appreciative of Mikkel’s plain, unseasoned oatmeal. The ship’s displa
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