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In the not-to-distant future, a combat-scarred veteran returns to a broken nation and finds himself in ugly company.
A short story from the author of Running Black, Shift Tense, The Barrow Lover, and the Clar1ty Wars series.
A short story from the author of Running Black, Shift Tense, The Barrow Lover, and the Clar1ty Wars series.
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 27, 2014
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About the author
Patrick Todoroff
37 books50 followersMy interest in books started when I was nine, the year my baby brother shoved a pretzel down into the back of the television set and my parents didn't get it fixed.
My first novel, "Running Black" was a 'put up or shut up' project during the 2008 recession. The sequel "Shift Tense" rolled out two years later.
Other titles include the cyberpunk/technoir novella, 'Soul Cache'; a Celtic-flavored ghost story, 'The Barrow Lover'; three tales from the Exclusion Zone - 'A Prayer to Saint Strelok', 'Strange Treasure', and 'Gopnik Blues', and a handful of stand-alone near-future shorts.
As a table top war game designer, I've written 'Zona Alfa' and 'When Nightmares Come' for Osprey Wargames, several best selling indie games: 'Exploit Zero', its monster-hunting fantasy cousin, 'Nightwatch', and the alien-invasion 'Insurgent Earth.'
Current projects include the post-apocalyptic fantasy 'Shattered Worlds' duology, and a gritty dungeon crawl series, 'Shiver and Funk."
I can be found online at Stalker7.com.
A thousand thanks.
My first novel, "Running Black" was a 'put up or shut up' project during the 2008 recession. The sequel "Shift Tense" rolled out two years later.
Other titles include the cyberpunk/technoir novella, 'Soul Cache'; a Celtic-flavored ghost story, 'The Barrow Lover'; three tales from the Exclusion Zone - 'A Prayer to Saint Strelok', 'Strange Treasure', and 'Gopnik Blues', and a handful of stand-alone near-future shorts.
As a table top war game designer, I've written 'Zona Alfa' and 'When Nightmares Come' for Osprey Wargames, several best selling indie games: 'Exploit Zero', its monster-hunting fantasy cousin, 'Nightwatch', and the alien-invasion 'Insurgent Earth.'
Current projects include the post-apocalyptic fantasy 'Shattered Worlds' duology, and a gritty dungeon crawl series, 'Shiver and Funk."
I can be found online at Stalker7.com.
A thousand thanks.
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February 8, 2015
Great Story and setting. It was great seeing Booker reclaim his humanity in the midst of depravity and horror in the extreme. An short story that pulls no punches at all.
August 2, 2018
We are what we eat. A veteran is adjusting to the chaos he has returned to. The short-term future of the USA is clear. Civil War . The same kind of Destruction we have participated in the rest of the world has come home.
Excellent writing, filling in a believable picture in glimpses of the future. Everything is foreseeable given our current state of affairs, including the plastic gun. You could say ripped-from-the-headlines.
Excellent writing, filling in a believable picture in glimpses of the future. Everything is foreseeable given our current state of affairs, including the plastic gun. You could say ripped-from-the-headlines.
February 23, 2019
A short story set in a possible near future. Fun, excited and leaving me with a desire for more. Unfortunately, for me, it’s a one off.
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