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The Green Bliss Part 4
4. The Prodigal Son The meeting with Sheriff Kane was polite, formal, and an utter waste of time. Over lunch, Kane and James Wood discussed the Santiago Syndicate, Moreno Island and the New Gods. While the great man had demonstrated ample deference to James Wood’s august position as a representative of the Public Security Bureau,…
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The Green Bliss Part 3
3. Homecoming It was good to be home. James Wood stepped off the ferry and into the relentless glare of the morning sun. A flock of seagulls squawked overhead, cutting above the low drone of the rumbling engines all around the docks. A gentle breeze carried the scent of the sea to his nose. The…
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The Green Bliss Part 2
The One-Eyed Man Modern medicine was a wonderful thing. The doctors patched James Wood up as best as they could. They replaced the blood he’d lost, reconstructed and reknitted the broken bone around his eye socket, extracted a bone sliver from his brain and repaired the wound. But his right eye was too far gone…
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The Green Bliss Part 1
1. Overkill In another era, in another world, deploying assault armor on a drug bust was overkill. But in Babylon, where the streets were soaked in the blood of the innocent and the damned, built upon bricks fired in the forges of gods, assault armor was merely adequate. As he waited, James Wood ran through…
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Heroes Unleashed is Live!
Courageous superheroes, high tech, dazzling magic and ruthless supervillains. If this sounds up your alley, Silver Empire’s Heroes Unleashed is for you. A shared universe superhero series, Heroes Unleashed will do for the written word what DC and Marvel did for comics. With superbeings inhabiting the same universe and regularly interacting with each other, Heroes Unleashed features a line of interconnected…
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The Art of Turning Gangsters Into Friends
I’d never known my grandfather. He passed away after shortly after I was born. Nonetheless, he lives on in my father’s stories. One of them was about how he befriended a group of gangsters. In the early 1980s, the Cheah family operated two shophouses in Singapore, specialising in curtains and interior design. My grandfather ran…