It wasn’t the ascent of Mount Everest that took my breath away, it was the suffocating pressure of breaking a record.. The title of “First Chinese National To Reach The Summit” had been taken, of course—something my mother never ceased to remind me of. However, the record for the first Chinese national to reach the summit without oxygen was still ripe for the taking. To my family, it was the only acceptable consolation prize.
As mercenaries, Connor and Lax had found themselves in all kinds of dangerous adventures over the years. But as Connor found himself in a life-or-death wrestling match with a battle-ready ergonomic office chair and an animated stapler tattooing his forehead, he realized the bar for their missions had reached a new, humiliating low.
I have tried to venture beyond the cave, but I can learn little of the beast’s habits. I have seen neither hide nor hair of the creature, nor any other for that matter, during these last two days.
After the latest Alershian attack knocked out most of the planet’s communications network, it took almost three weeks for Lieutenant Williams to learn his brother was dead.
After the latest Alershian attack knocked out most of the planet’s communications network, it took almost three weeks for Lieutenant Williams to learn his brother was dead.
The lean figure of Major Sophia Villafana appeared from behind a towering blackish-red fern that was the color of drying blood. Despite her bulky white environmental suit, the biologist practically skipped a beat as she moved from one plant to another taking samples.
As the first flakes of snow landed on Jocelyn’s parka, the generator spluttered and died. ‘Shit,’ she spat. She tried to brush the flakes from her sleeves, but for every crystal she banished two more fell from above.
Despite the miracles Biomarqs could pull with flesh, no amount of gene-splicing and meat-dicing matched up to a magnetically accelerated round nearly clearing 2,000 metres per second.