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    • Chapter 3 • Wiccisaw High Cover
      by Ted Wallenius Wiccisaw High School lay like a squashed gray slug on a patch of land halfway between the Sangre de Cristo foothills and the reservoir valley. Altitude was the prime social indicator in Chivalry. Wherever folks could look down on anyone else there was a well paved road. The streets joined columned red brick houses with driveways so steep the owners probably needed the glossy new trucks that sat in their garages just to get up to them. Below the high school it was different. The downward slope led to dirty,…
    • Chapter 2 • Square Dance Cover
      by Ted Wallenius Chivalry, New Mexico 1990 Danny Chevalrae fell in love while sitting on his front porch, watching the burning embers that were the end of a long August night. That evening it had been the only thing to do he was any good at. Even though all the porches in town offered decent views of empty streets, front porch sitting was a lost art among people Danny’s age in Chivalry. It was Friday, and most of the high school seniors were more interested in driving their pickups to houses outside town with well…
    • Chapter 1 • Little Irish Cover
      by Ted Wallenius Hell’s Kitchen, New York 1955 He remembered it so clearly. He could still feel Joey Pica folding the hundred dollar bill into his pocket, feel Joey's manicured fingernails buttoning the flap down over top of it. The bill was so new it was warm in his pocket, so crisp he could hear it crinkle when he bent at the waist. Joey introduced him as the ‘Little Irish.’ They all laughed as if it didn’t matter. They told him he looked like a strong young man. Joey took him aside later that night, after…
    • Straw Dogs Cover
      by michael raven Straw Dogs was flash fiction piece originally written in 2013 with a moderate amount of editing in 2025. It was written several years before the cyberpunk genre was revitalized by the games industry and was influenced by early Shadowrun novels.
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