Kit Sun Cheah

Tag: Horror

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Black Watch Part 11

    The Elect “You seem well,” Yamamoto said mildly. The cyborg nodded. “Yes. I replenished my stock of nanopaste and grafted a fresh arm to replace the damaged one. I am now at a hundred percent operational efficiency.” “And you brought friends,” Yamamoto added. “Of course. Someone launched a campaign of murder and terror against the…

  • The Black Watch Part 10

    Believer The werewolf beheld the operator. Yamamoto was a man. A weak, fragile, puny man, barely worthy of his teeth and claws. And yet… And yet, he stood unflinchingly before him, cold green eyes clear yet inscrutable, short sword held loose but at the ready, his muscles ready to explode into a symphony of motion.…