Tag: web serials
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“Tick, Tick, Boom!” – Part 6
Agent Moreen Lee rushed up the stairwell after Dave, her breaths short and quick. She didn’t like trailing behind him, but there was something to be said for having a bulletproof human shield in front of you. “This place must have ten floors.” Dave’s voice echoed off the tall, blank…
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“Tick, Tick, Boom!” – Part 5
Dave’s gaze darted from the hostages to the exit and the gunmen in the space of a second. He had to get these people out of here. “Shit,” Moreen said, indicating she’d gotten the message, too. The jerk with the mohawk thinks his boss won’t set them off now that…
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“Tick, Tick, Boom!” – Part 4
Dave sat cross-legged on the floor next to Moreen with the rest of the hostages. Muffled sobbing came from someone behind him, along with soothing whispers and a murmured Hail Mary. “Everything’s going to be okay,” Dave had told everyone when the gunmen had first corralled them. He fervently hoped…
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“Tick, Tick, Boom!” – Part 3
Arm linked with the Prophet Kid, Val escorted him to where Eddy waited in a parked car behind the warehouse. Val opened the back door and nudged the kid inside. “Eddy, meet the Prophet Kid. Prophet Kid, Eddy.” Eddy Capello was a big, barrel-chested man who’d worked for Val’s family…
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“Tick, Tick, Boom!” – Part 2
David Del Toro saw the crowd in front of the courthouse the moment the car turned onto 6th Street. His head thumped against the back of his seat, and he resisted the urge to groan. “I don’t suppose you know a back way in?” he asked the driver. “No, sir.…
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“Tick, Tick, Boom!” – Part 1
Valentina Belmonte was waiting for a police van. She stood in an alley between two warehouses, drinking a mango smoothie as she watched cars pass by. Some kind of office building stood across the cracked, pothole-filled street. She should have talked her way in there and waited in the air-conditioning.…
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2016 Plans
It’s not too late for new year’s resolutions, right? Right. In 2015, I released Villainous, and wow, that book gave me a lot of trouble. In 2016, I’m planning to be more ambitious. In the first half of the year, I’m going to start releasing Fight Crime! (A Love Story),…
Kristen Brand 