Tag: Mike Ross
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Denver
21 August, 2017 — Front Range, Colorado The event can best be understood as a causal sequence of subevents of rapidly increasing spatial and energetic scope. The sequence begins with the firing of timer events in computers belonging to private corporations in Israel, Turkey, and Serbia. Those events awaken logics that transmit messages containing apparently…
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Nightmare Hall
20 August, 2017 — Denver Redoubt Walt takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly as the elevator passes Level 9, and continues descending. The numbers turn red. Although the elevator is faster than what you would encounter in an office building, each level still takes longer to reach and pass through than what…
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Money
20 August, 2017 — Denver, Colorado After coming off shift, Walt has long since passed the point of nervousness, and is now starting to think about emergency escape plans. If they’ve taken Mike, how can he get the other guys out? If he tells them it’s time to punch out, will they even listen to…
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Later that Evening
19 August, 2017 — Denver Redoubt Later that evening, after Walt and Mike have separated at last, Walt returns to work. Mike asked him so many times if he was okay that Walt finally accused Mike of himself being messed up by what they had seen. He admitted that that was probably true. Well, sure,…
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Flying Saucers
19 August, 2017 — Denver Redoubt “I just want you to take a look at the what some of the cracking looks like after prepping,” Mike says. “Don talked to me about it yesterday, and he wasn’t real thrilled about it. I’m not either.” Walt walks alongside Mike across one of the parking areas that…
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…and what they said at the bar
June, 2017 — Denver, Colorado The Star Bar is in a neighborhood that seems to be half given over to cracked parking lots, with the remaining fifty percent equally split between low-rent apartments, warehouses, “party” stores, and bars. If you approach the Star in the evening, it stands out among its neighboring structures for two…
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Talk at the bar
June, 2017 — Denver, Colorado Ross greets the whole gang at the door as they enter his hotel “room”. That’s how he described it when he talked to them all on the phone, because he had more on his mind at the time than talking like a travel agent. The hotel describes it as a…
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Front Range
June, 2017 — Watkins, Colorado Mike Ross finally finds Front Range Airport at the end of a dusty little road in the middle of Absolutely Fucking Nowhere, at ten minutes past eight, after spending the last half hour cussing out vague road signs and the totally useless navigation app on his phone. Since the destruction…
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A Job in Colorado
June, 2017 — Denver, Colorado You don’t want to appear too eager, but you also don’t want to look bored or uninterested. Mike Ross shifts around in the chair to get a view out the window at the blue Denver sky. He’s come a long way fleeing the collapse of the housing market, looking for…
The Wolverine Truck Stop and Motor Lodge 