A woman stands with her back to the camera, behind a large pane of aquarium glass. On the other side, stands a large crowd, all viewing and recording her like a zoo animal.
Chapter 10 - Aquarium Glass #tigerandtheviper #bookart
//CW: Mild Flashing, TW: Netizen Abuse, SH//
You’re a former child star turned pop idol.
You go on an interview.
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Chapter 5 of #TigerandTheViper is out. Had a lot of fun with this one!
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There was a sort of lopsided #nostalgia that washed over me here in the observation room in Los Robles. The same ponderous machines, the same hushed white noise from the beeping readouts.
It felt surreal to be back here again, in many ways.
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Some #wip posting! A bit of work happening so far on Tiger & The Viper Ch 6
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Kim’s hand around my wrist lead me through the packed club, moving through the press of noise and bodies.
It was strange. I hated her, I knew that for sure, but there was also a small, gnawing #scintilla of something else. And I didn’t know how to feel about that.
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We were compromised. I knew from the #moment that the deck’s screen flickered, and its projected image bounced.
I put my hand on Angelina’s tattooed arm and squeezed. “They found us.”
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“I’m sure we can find someone down at The #Vagary that can help color your hair,” Lyle said, concern apparent on his face.
“I’m not sure I want to,” I said after a moment of consideration. “But I’ll still go to the bar with you.”
“Attagirl.”
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The VR deck whirred through locations as I flipped my choices. A Waterfall, deep forest, a starry nebula. I stopped on the last one and stepped into the center of the room.
A #starscape of neon dust swirled around me. An impressive display.
This was a new model.
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I watched as Daedalus fired up the machine, a dusty old thing with opaque casing.
As she typed, the letters scrambled before my eyes on the screen.
“It’s like an enigma machine,” I said, the machine’s purpose dawning on me. This hunk of junk was made for encryption.
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Somewhere in the sulfur-rich, #primordial sludge, sat the spark of life that made Kim who she was.
Kim’s greed had never come from a dearth of resources—but from a deliberate desire to have everything, all squarely placed, underneath her thumb.
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From the point of view of a CCTV Camera: A Frenchman in his late twenties stands in an empty, dark convenience store.
Closed Circuit
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What did the self mean even mean when you were created for someone else’s wish fulfillment, and you owed each cell to a company that simply scrapped you together like a shopping list of goods?
Was I even a person or a product at that point? Simply doomed to fail and be replaced?
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“I guess, let me know if you ever want to talk to #someone,” Kim ventured.
“Why would I ask you?” Sunny replied.
“Because I’m the one who took out your ex’s boss. Taking care of another problem would be easy.” She smiled at Sunny, all white teeth and hooded eyes.
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It wasn’t like she could just #stop performing. Even if she retired now, it would plunge her parents into debt for the rest of their lives.
The hospital bills, training, and housing had been there all along, hidden in plain sight on her contract.
The studio owned her.
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Kim slid backwards from the impact, her feet kicking up a cloud of red rust.
Then, something in her boot heels made a metallic click. Within moments, I watched her #spring backwards, effortlessly clearing the distance to the second story in a single, graceful arc.
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Some folks said even a hundred years ago, you could find two-headed turtles in the New River.
Now a #strait, the noxious water carried Salton’s run off down through Mexicali and over the Mexican Republic’s border. The Republic, unsurprisingly, didn’t tend to love that.
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Woman holding a pack of blemish patches
“What am I looking at?” Sunny said, shifting the small, plastic sheath of stickers in her palm.
Lafayette exhaled stimsmoke from his nostrils and smiled. “It’s called #splinter. Three times stronger than K. Jacks right into your ocular system for the ride of your life.”
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Top-down image of a sleeping woman with her hair loose, connected to wires that surround her.
It’s officially #Pride as well as #SciFiSummer ☀️
What better time to jump back into the cyberpunk series #TigerandTheViper
Want to catch up before new episodes come out? Find the narrated episodes here:
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Sunbeam on the far wall of a white painted hospital room. As seen from the perspective of someone in a hospital bed. Photo by Varvara Kuzmenkova.
One long, fiery #sunbeam sliced across the floor, dividing the room in halves.
On one end, her mother slept, crunched in a chair, bathed in morning light. On the other, Sunny laid awake in her bed, still steeped in a cold, sterile gloom.
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