distinctive://stories
May 20, 2021
DEEP (#20) **Series Finale**
Bouncing over what passed for a desert road in the middle of Nevada, I found it easy to know what to do, and to predict the ways in which I could be discovered. The satellites covering the ground,...
Go →April 29, 2021
ANCIENT (#19)
I could not help thinking about Anna as the Humvee I rode in bumped over rocks and gravel. I couldn't help it because I was laying on top of her dead body, hiding, stowing away. I couldn't wait to...
Go →April 15, 2021
COLD WAR (#18)
I am strapped to Anna's back, plummeting at 120 miles per hour. Straight down. Down. Down. We were dropped low and fast, it's our only chance. Fast, undetected. Then Anna pulls the cord and ......
Go →April 1, 2021
SUPERPOWER (#17)
As the first brick flies out of my hand, toward the old warehouse wall, I think, "Have I ever been this mad before?" And I think, is this a side effect of Computronium, too? Then, another brick, an...
Go →March 18, 2021
POTENTIAL (#16)
I sleep three quarters of every day. I'm actually not really sleeping. But, I'm not aware and to avoid the real subject, SeventyNine and TwoZeroEight call it "sleeping." Not, "Being Overcome." Which...
Go →March 4, 2021
TWO GRAVES (#15)
I push the hotel lobby door, and I walk out into a cold evening. I do not know if I am chasing, or if I am running. Out into the dim, gray evening. It's snowing lightly. Flurries. Just the sky...
Go →February 18, 2021
ROYAL CASINO (#13.1)
It is morning, and I wake up. I smell coffee. And, I smell the six, or eight, maybe nine cocktails Joanna drank last night on an empty stomach. That's how strong she smells. All while she was...
Go →February 11, 2021
ROYAL CASINO (#13.1)
I'm walking across a wide open Casino, feeling like this is a Very Bad Idea(™). And, there is a man right there -- right there! -- looking at me like he recognizes me. I hold myself steady. Tell...
Go →February 5, 2021
Hackers - Have You Ever Been Robbed?
We'll get back to the Computronium series next week. This past week I was in quarantine and wasn't able to write and produce as much as I would like. So, I pulled the second "Hacked Feed" story from...
Go →January 28, 2021
EXFILTRATION #12
I sat at a kitchen table in a beach house, drinking my third hot cup of coffee. I was talking to two men and two women who had traced us to this place I'd never even heard of twelve hours ago. Well,...
Go →January 21, 2021
BEACH HOUSE (#11)
They headed to Robbie's parent's beach house to get away, regroup and figure things out. But, they arrived second. If no one knew where they were going, how did they get there first? I am in a beach...
Go →January 14, 2021
BELOW THE SECRECY (#10)
In the middle of a struggle, Rufus does something even the Computronium can't help Sean predict. Then, a thrown plant, a chaotic lobby, a car chase and a big, black-eye. Sean and his friends are on...
Go →January 11, 2021
UNDER SECRETARY (#9)
The Arcanas, Stac[iy] and some guys in Windbreakers visit Sean and Jan at work. And, there are fisticuffs, backhanded insults, weird phone calls to guys with weird job titles and a turning point....
Go →January 7, 2021
WILL JAN JOIN? (#8)
Sean find Jan and seeks her help. Will she join him, or (continue to) think he's btsht cr*zy? Moreover, will Sean be able to escape the clutches of Rufus and the Mystery Woman, and their desire to...
Go →December 31, 2020
THE ARCANANS (#7)
Sean is startled by who two white-haired, humorless assassins he presumes is the (are the?) Arcanans. They want what Sean has, what Sean was given. His only hope is getting his hands on the...
Go →December 24, 2020
GOOD TIMES (#6)
Sean has possession of the Computronium, and seeks to discover why it's such a big deal. Since he googled it, he knows what it's supposed to do. But, does it work that way? And, if so, how do you get...
Go →December 17, 2020
BLOOD, BATH (#5)
The Three Train Thugs find an end to their disagreement, Sean meets two new nemesis and have a cinematic disagreement with his friends, down by the river. Sean also purchases a Halloween costume and...
Go →December 10, 2020
Have You Ever Been Hacked?
We'll get back to the Computronium series next week. This week, I am pulling an Interruption from from the archives, a recording that appeared on my podcast feed in 2017. These "I hacked this feed"...
Go →December 3, 2020
NEAR THE COURTYARD (#4)
Going against his inner voice's advice, Sean tries to take the train. He's jumped, thumped and forced to do things. Along the way, he learn more about the mysterious rock he was given by a stranger....
Go →November 23, 2020
AT THE PARTY (#3)
I was at a party. At Penelope's. I had to pee, badly, but I did not know, could not know, how just needing to pee would cause me almost as many problems as that damn rock would. The party was...
Go →November 13, 2020
AT THE OFFICE (#2)
Now at the office, surrounded by snoopy co-workers, Sean wants to examine the "gift" given to him by Train Platform Man, and that caused TPM to be tackled, beaten and searched. Sean didn't see this...
Go →November 12, 2020
ON THE TRAIN PLATFORM (#1)
Sean is just standing there, jamming to music in his earbuds, and Train Platform Man singles him out and slips him a small package, then TPM tries to flee but is violently ambushed by Staring Man,...
Go →November 5, 2020
THE SWITCH & THE KILL (Finale)
I was back in Alabama. I hadn't eaten, had a drink, or gone to the bathroom since Montana, two days ago. Every time I complained, Barry zapped me with a stun gun, and he enjoyed it. I stopped...
Go →October 29, 2020
E11EVEN | #10
Jenny and I walked into Billings International Airport. It was a nice looking airport, but tiny. Barely an entire terminal. In my wallet, I had one last fake ID, and the single most important SD...
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