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370 River Street
Author: Kaiser Ken
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Gunfire tore across River Street Square without stopping.

Fifty rifles were firing into the center of it from four directions at once. The noise came off the buildings and doubled back, so hard that the shop windows on the corner had already shaken out of their frames.

In the middle of that square, twelve men and one woman were pinned down behind four cars.

The cars were coming apart around them. Glass sprayed off the roofs in sheets and rounds punched clean through the door panels into the asp
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  • 377 Heads Held High

    Dewey knelt on the red carpet, holding his arms together and shaking so hard his teeth were going.It wasn't only the whip. His forearm was laid open, and his face had swelled up red as a tomato where she had hit him, and neither of those was why he couldn't stop shaking.Tyler Grant was Don Camilla's date.Dewey said it out loud to nobody at all. There's no version of this world where that was possible.Dewey had spent eleven years on that door learning to size up a man in three seconds, and he'd put this one down as a beggar. He had offered him leftovers at the service entrance. He had promised to put him face down on the road in front of six thousand people.The kid in the cheap shirt was the date of the woman who ran half of Sapphire City.Beside him, Rodney Cooper had gone the colour of a dead fish."Oh, God. Oh God, oh God."His father had one standing rule and had said it to him so many times that he could hear it in his sleep.Never go near Dorian Vex. Never go near Don Camill

  • 376 My Date

    Huxley stood in the middle of the red carpet and couldn't make his legs work.Eleven days ago he had taken fifty men and a roadblock out onto the north road to collect the Salvatore heiress for Rodney Cooper. He had watched this same young man drink a juice box while it happened.Then the water came.Huxley had gone a quarter of a mile down that road inside it, upside down, with cars going past him in the flood. Two of his men were still in hospital. One of them wouldn't walk properly again."Go on," Rodney said behind him. "What are you standing there for? Take him apart."Huxley didn't move.Tyler looked over at him and gave him a thin smile."I hope you boys dried off all right. Sorry I didn't stop to say a proper goodbye."That did it.Huxley made a sound six thousand people heard, a high strangled squeal, and he turned and ran.Eleven men went with him. They shoved past photographers, knocked over a whole section of the barrier rope, and didn't stop until they were round the corn

  • 375 Leftovers

    The limousine door opened and Annika Salvatore stepped out onto the carpet.She stood six feet tall barefoot, and her heels were adding another four inches to that. Dark red dress, bare shoulders, black hair all the way down her back. The crowd at the barrier made a sound like something had been taken off them."That's the Salvatore girl!""Look at the height of her. She's like something off a mountain."Four hundred cameras turned away from the doors and went off in her face.Annika was used to it and she walked past all of it, and then about ten feet from the entrance she stopped dead.There was a young man at the gate with four security men closing in around him.She knew that face. She had driven that face six hundred miles out of an ice prison eleven days ago, and she had watched him raise a wave of water out of a juice box and wash fifty armed men down a road.Annika changed direction and walked over."What's going on here?"Dewey turned around and his whole body changed shape.

  • 374 Plus One

    The Sapphire City Gala was the biggest night of the year, and every important person in nine million people had come to be seen at it.The Grand Meridian had shut down two blocks of road for it. There were four hundred press photographers behind the rope on the left side of the red carpet and about six thousand fans crushed against the barrier on the right, and they had been standing there since two in the afternoon.The cars came in one at a time so nobody had to share a photograph."That's the Governor's wife, that's her, in the green!""Who cares. Where's Ivy? They said nine o'clock!"Film actors, two senators, and the man who owned the baseball franchise.One tech billionaire came in by helicopter and still had to walk the carpet, because the photographs were the entire point of the evening.Word had gone around that both mobs were sending representatives, and half the room had come just to see whether that was true.But the six thousand people at that barrier hadn't come for any

  • 373 My Little Toddler

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  • 372 Cold Shoulder

    They took the last working car out through the gap in the north road while the barricade was still burning.Bruno drove. Two of the men rode on the hood with rifles until they cleared the square.Nobody came after them. There was nobody left on that road in any condition to try.Tyler sat in the back next to Camilla.She didn't say one word to him for twenty-two minutes.She sat with her rifle across her knees and her eyes out the window, and she never turned her head once. When Bruno asked her something she answered him in three words and went back to the window.Tyler let the streets go past the window and turned it over in his head.He had just put fifty of Vex's men in a crater for her. She had demanded his name at the start and never brought it up again.Camilla had heard "Callie" out of a stranger's mouth in the middle of a firefight and gone white, and now she was acting like he was a piece of furniture somebody had left in her car.Women were strange. He'd learned nothing else

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