Sophie July 20th, 2017 12:43 AM The first thing Sophie felt was the suffocation of a damp blanket, like webbing wrapped all around her body. The second thing she felt was the gag in her mouth, and how it pressed her tongue onto her teeth. She wished she could vomit because the blanket tasted of gasoline and of salt. She …

Dion July 20th, 2017 12:28 AM Dion found Apollo winding around the corner. His car radiated heat and fumes from within an alleyway, next to him a dumpster. “You look pretty bad,” Dion said. He ate a chocolate donut, large bite after bite, the half-finished box behind him and the crumbs all over his lap. Apollo jumped in and slammed …

Sophie July 20th, 2017 1:13 PM “Do you know anything about this boy? His name was Pip,” Sophie held the photo to the twenty-fourth bitter face she had seen today. And this m*********** was ugly, a trophy amongst the gallery of ugly people she had been forced to interact with. Detectives have it hard. He nodded his head, Sophie bit …

Apollo July 20th, 2017 9:00 AM “I think that’s our guy,” Apollo compared the drawing in his hand to the man below him, the bald man catering the children with sweet talk. They stood at the edge of a rooftop, amongst the crows and cigarette buds and given the bleak suit, they blended in well. “Are you sure it’s him?” …

Alestor July 20th, 2017 6:00 AM The sweat came off Alestor’s back and stuck his skin to the bed. It had been a night of strong images. He looked to his side and found a picture of a woman whose smile invoked a cold dragging feeling across his spine and he put the picture face down as it worsened. The …

Sophie July 20th, 2017 12:12 AM Sophie didn’t hear about Pip’s death from anyone’s mouth. That was what made her truly sad. She had heard about it over the news. While she was heating up a cup of noodles. She heard it in the kitchen, the words straying into her periphery like a walking shadow. Matthew ‘Pip’ Lafayette found missing. …

Dion July 17th, 2017 8:06 AM It had been three days since the sewer incident, and they were pressed. The names of a drug dealer that could or could not lead to the key-buyer (what Apollo presumed to be the vampire of Havenbrook) as well as a new and sudden occurrence, the kidnapping of a child. Kidnapped children weren’t strange …

Some nights after the sewer incident, in a place remote and irrelevant… This had been the first time Jeremiah would see his partner since he was nearly killed and it frightened him. He had thought about leaving four different times on the way to the receptionist desk. He had hidden inside the restroom on the way to the room. He …

Apollo July 16th, 2017 8:55 AM Apollo came to the front door and knocked four times before he realized no one was there. He sighed and fixed the mask the covered his mouth and nose. He knew he still looked like a terror, there was unfinished work on his face. He put his foot on the door, breaking it wouldn’t …

Apollo July 16th, 2017 2:35 AM “I alibe.” Apollo gargled blood. His tongue had just begun to reform. “I’m alive.” The jaw was the second to last thing that regenerated for him. And with it came a feeling of balance finally. His legs shook as he stood. His arms could not straighten out and held his chest. He fell, his …