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Chapter 25: Magnetic Declination (Part I)
Inside the closet stood a monument to Emily Early. A small tower, constructed entirely of CRT and LCD monitors dominated the center of the heap like a terrible god, each screen glowing with flickering video images replaying apparently random clips of video—all of which included Emily Early at various stages of her childhood and college [...]
An update: Forced hiatus
Firstly, I need to apologize to my fans for the total lack of updates over such a vast period of time. The events that led to this caught me totally by surprise, but they haven’t stopped me.
On top of having some technical issues, which have mostly been sorted out, I lost my job during the holiday break. [...]
No Black Hat Magick this week (yes, hosting again.)
Looks like the hosting issues continue. Had some outages.
Never fear, Black Hat Magick is still continuing, I’m just dealing with some technical issues that I need to round out. Technical glitches, my work being weird, and getting sick for a few days put a crimp in my editing schedule. I hoped to get the next [...]
Chapter 24: Through the Door (Part II)
Elaine’s head zeroed in on Roger with the alacrity of a turret tracking a target. “Fever?”
“Uh.” He backpedaled under the unexpected attention. “Well, it’s…”
“Colloquial,” Frog said without missing a beat, she gave him an apologetic look. “It refers to ideas that get into people’s heads, like fads, that seem to spread like illnesses. And he’s [...]
Chapter 24: Through the Door (Part I)
“Who is it?” the other said to Hadaly-not-Hadaly. “I’ve been exploring. There’s been so much to do. “
The darkness had resolved somewhat, she knew she’d been trapped inside of some highly firewalled system-of-subsystems along with the other. Without larger resources and better processing—or at least more facts—she couldn’t make heads-or-tails of the analog signals, just [...]
Chapter 23: Center Stage (Part II)
“What’s not permissible?” asked Zane.
“Emily is throwing a concert and it’s a blatant platform to get votes,” Elaine said. “And she wonders why she keeps winning these things. She’s obviously not playing fair. She’s pouring a lot more effort into winning than any other candidate can possibly hope to and she’s got resources that would [...]
Chapter 23: Center Stage (Part I)
Andrew arrived at class late due to evacuated students clogging the Memorial Union. Over half the campus had lost power, another talkative student explained. Nobody knew if it affected any of the buildings along University. So he went to class anyway.
The lecture hall looked about half full, and the TA stood near the front pulling [...]
Chapter 22: Static Discharge (Part II)
“Not in the wall socket, near the wall socket. Please signify your understanding of the semantic difference.”
“Oh,” he said, in a slightly less hard tone. “That’s slightly better…”
“You need to hurry, the effect seems to be clearing up,” she said. Zach’s flashlight beam had been joined by two others as him and several other people [...]
Chapter 22: Static Discharge (Part I)
In the dark of the hallway the traces of the gremlin leaping through the wires in the walls stood out like a sore thumb—if that thumb also happened to be radioactive and emitting sparks. Surprised people poked their heads out of their offices, stumbled out into the shadowy corridor, and generally proved to be obstacles [...]
Chapter 21: Line Noise (Part II)
“In the flesh—well, in the manifest audible at least,” her older brother said. “When Zach called me the other day, he led me to believe that things were much worse than they seem. Of course, he’s always had a difference sense of responsibility than you do. Always caught up in your books and classes and [...]