“By the time he noticed, the three of them were already closing in. It was a shame that he recognized the one who took off his helmet; he was quite a good shooter. No way he could beat him and the other two. Oh, but if he was piloting an albatross in a dogfight…”
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Whether all that contraption was necessary just to play that video recording, or whether he was doing it to impress me, I would never know. The truth is that neither of us knew exactly what that tape was. But at least I should have known, at least me; of course, now it’s too late to regret it.
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“And among the elite Orange Scarf agents, Ken Axis was presented. Initially, he was not what they were expecting, but they were Orange Scarves after all; they could see beyond the gangly individual before them.”
Complex City extract.
While Rob was struggling with his inner self, there she was; all along, she was always there. If only he’d seen her for what she was, Rob Bosco’s story would have developed very differently.
Complex City extract.
After being gunned down that way, the medal was the last thing he would pick, but it was the artificial soldier; the one who rescued him, she who picked the medal. A bit of a mystery why she did that; maybe she saw him before with it and thought it was important.
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Is that a commercial cargo ship? It is definitely not ours, is it? “It is a cargo ship, but its load is not commercial”, I thought. I had no idea what the dark octagon in the sky would unleash.
Rob Bosco – Complex City extract.
“It was obvious then that STAR had a mole deeper than the Trident thought at the time. Those soldiers didn’t know exactly what they were preventing when they fought those rebels in that small room”
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“It was Captain Valdan’s obsession, you know? The gunship project, and I can’t blame him, really. He helped with its development; he and I, we were a team. However, he was the only one getting all the credit”. Complex City extract.
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For this Inktober, I decided to match a selected group of prompt words from the official list to a scene from an original story of mine: Complex City. A science fiction novel in which the individuals are merely disposable instruments of groups of power and institutions, but will somebody rebel?
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Hard to pinpoint what the source of inspiration was for this one. The image came to my head, and I just knew it needed to come out. By the way, what kind of weapon is our fellow chicken holding?
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