The city is my home. Every street, every corner, pulsating with the stories I know too well.
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I rise to the sound of the morning rush. Rolling waves of bleary eyed zombies step off the train and trudge towards the station exits in crisp business suits and ill-fitting work uniforms. Horton, a beefy
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He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We
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had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid’s finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.
Dr Corvid created me in man’s image without the
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I’m waiting for your voice. My trembling hand is so damp the phone could slip from my fragile grasp at any moment. Each ring burns in my ear and makes the washing machine in my stomach tumble faster and faster. After three rings, or it could be four, or forty, I
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