Archive for category Vampires

Cheating Life – 3

iii When you’re smart, it’s easy to get by. You just have to manage your expectations. A low-wage job, a cheap apartment, cheap clothes – you remind yourself that you don’t really need that ‘20% more’ that everyone seems to want. So, I did that for awhile – paid off the college loan, even. But [...]

Cheating Life – 2

ii No matter where or when you go, you’ll always find the type of person who tries to beat the system. For whatever reason, these people get it into their head that the system – the “Man”, the government, the universe – is leeching away their well-being. They are resentful, sarcastic folk who look for [...]

Cheating Life – 1

i It all started when they made suicide legal. I guess it really started before that, when that team of university scientists in Singapore set up Stephenson Lenses in the local emergency rooms. They were as surprised as anyone by their results: images of unexplained energy leaving the bodies of the dying. Of course the [...]

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