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Spire City: Infected #6
Completing the Map
Spire City is home to mighty machines of steam power and clockwork, and giant beetles pull picturesque carriages over cobbled streets, but there is a darker secret behind these wonders. A deadly infection, created by a mad scientist, is spreading through the city, targeting the poor and powerless, turning them slowly into animals. A group of those infected by the serum join together to survive, to trick the wealthy out of their money, and to fight back.
Spire City is full of abandoned alleys, sewer tunnels, disused attics, and forgotten cellars. For years Batan has been mapping these routes, which form a sort of alternate city, unknown to both the uninfected citizens and the authorities. He can feel his body failing, though, as his infection runs its course. Can he give the others his knowledge before he completes?
Spire City is full of abandoned alleys, sewer tunnels, disused attics, and forgotten cellars. For years Batan has been mapping these routes, which form a sort of alternate city, unknown to both the uninfected citizens and the authorities. He can feel his body failing, though, as his infection runs its course. Can he give the others his knowledge before he completes?
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First published March 13, 2014
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Daniel Ausema
65 books26 followersDaniel Ausema grew up in West Michigan, surrounded by orchards, hay fields, glacial lakes, and stands of oak and maple trees. He earned his BA in English Literature and Spanish in 2000. After working in experiential and alternative education for a while, he moved to Colorado with his family and settled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He is now a stay-at-home father. His fiction and poetry have appeared in dozens of publications.
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June 22, 2015
Ausema’s elegant writing style, cleverly executed plotline, and thought-provoking ideas about the issues that face humanity when living in a totalitarian society—greed, chance, courage, perseverance, the sanctity of friends and family, and a desire to survive—make it quite an impressive series.
Spire City Episode Six: Completing the Map
Spire City is full of abandoned alleys, sewer tunnels, disused attics, and forgotten cellars. For years Batan has been mapping these routes, which form a sort of alternate city, unknown to both the uninfected citizens and the authorities. He can feel his body failing, though, as his infection runs its course. Can he give the others his knowledge before he completes?
SPOILERS AHEAD
I enjoyed this chapter. It is darker, more philosophical, than some of the others. Bantan has reached the end of his change and desperately wants to pass on his knowledge of the underground tunnels to group before the infection destroys the last of his humanity. His last wish is to be carried into the tunnels, far from the rat catchers, and to be left alone to complete the transition in private. His final words to the group are not about his fate, but their own lives, and inspire them to continue their fight against Orgood and his minions.
Spire City Episode Six: Completing the Map
Spire City is full of abandoned alleys, sewer tunnels, disused attics, and forgotten cellars. For years Batan has been mapping these routes, which form a sort of alternate city, unknown to both the uninfected citizens and the authorities. He can feel his body failing, though, as his infection runs its course. Can he give the others his knowledge before he completes?
SPOILERS AHEAD
I enjoyed this chapter. It is darker, more philosophical, than some of the others. Bantan has reached the end of his change and desperately wants to pass on his knowledge of the underground tunnels to group before the infection destroys the last of his humanity. His last wish is to be carried into the tunnels, far from the rat catchers, and to be left alone to complete the transition in private. His final words to the group are not about his fate, but their own lives, and inspire them to continue their fight against Orgood and his minions.
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