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The City

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Reads 3,372
Votes 112
Parts 140
Time 1h 9m

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"O'Donnell builds a world both enticing and unsettling...The City remains full of surprises at every turn."
  -JRD Skinner, "Flashpulp"
  
Winner of The 2017 Ooorah Award for Best Cyberpunk!

  WELCOME TO THE CITY...
  
  The City is a place beyond the real world. Created and controlled by the titanic Midas Corporation, The hyper-realistic virtual environment is the capital of an empire without borders, outside the reach of terrestrial law enforcement.
  When controlling interest in the company is sold to a mysterious new player, The City breaks down, trapping millions inside with feral, zombie-like avatars. And the infection is spreading. It falls to the Daytrippers, teenage hackers and rebels who don't play by Midas' rules, to save The City, and the world.
  
  A drabble novella told from one hundred and forty different points of view, The City is like no place you've ever seen before.All Rights Reserved

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Trial By Fire

A tortured past, a strange addiction, and a secret identity. What will it take stop the nightmares? Son of the richest man in the galaxy, Dante Opulen has a colorful past. He's an award-winning holo-film star, a war hero, a husband and a father. Despite his success, Dante struggles with the nightmares of his past. To pass the sleepless nights, he's become a masked vigilante. He stalks the streets at night looking to scrub clean the human refuse that lurk in the shadows. And to aid in his pursuit he's become addicted to expensive surgical procedures that cybernetically enhance his abilities. How many implants will it take before he feels strong enough? How many criminals must he apprehend before the nightmares end? Is such a thing even possible? There's only one way to find out.