Tantalus X 3

Chapter 3 The Angels             Gabriel checked his watch again.  He hated stake outs. He understood their importance, but lately all they were doing was watching buildings where young Martian adults met to plan protests. Gabriel was a detective, not secret police and he resented being used as a glorified babysitter.  Every year they used …

Tantalus X Prologue

Prologue  The ancient Romans had a term for the unexplained, that which devoured and preyed on mortals-Lamia meaning witch or vampire in old Latin. Thousands of years after this great civilization died out and only their alphabet remained, the archaic word was brought back, if only by destiny, to become a term for hero. It …

Tantalus X 1

Chapter 1 The Bone Yard             Red sands swirled around the desert landscape.  Hot sun cooked the skeletons of once great ships littered in unending lines at the bone yard in Hayden, Mars. The horizon was covered in dunes and bathed in red silt, except for the tall standing structures of scrap metal which arose …

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