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"What good is showing I care going to do me, Ethan?" James hissed. "If I care, then I am weak. Don't you get that? I am a machine. I am a soldier. I cannot miss her. I cannot ask where she is gone. I cannot care that she is not here anymore, because caring will get me killed". As James tries to come to terms with lif...
Riley just fell asleep in Calculus, and when she woke up, everyone was dead. They weren't killed off by zombies or even a nuke; like Riley, they fell asleep, except they never got around to the 'waking up' part. She wasn't asking for the apocalypse to happen in her sleep, and she definitely wasn't asking to have some...
'They wore uniform grey, their expression hard and distant, their muscles taut with expectation, as if at any moment they were ready to lead an assault, to carry out orders, to kill, to die. And yet they were. Kingston had trained these children to kill at a word, to obey their masters without question. They were mach...