Serial · ongoing
Empyreon Earth
Amid a society of floating sky-cities, the most powerful Corporations of Earth have successfully organized humanity to their will, until a dangerous discovery by a squad of prison-sourced surface-scrappers threatens to upend the new world order. Amaya Queenie has no clue what her brother has been doing while imprisoned at the Cirrus Prime Detention Facility, but an emergency notification during a routine Friday at work upends the new life she's established and sends her on a quest of discovery about family, friends, and how to navigate the intricate webs of late-late-capitalism.
Chapter 1
Friday was moving fucking slowly. Amaya Queenie checked the time on her terminal again, still hours to go, and stood to stretch the stiffnes…
Chapter 2
The cheap green plastic-mesh gates stretched and screeched as the crowds strained against the make-shift barrier. Gathering since noon in th…
Chapter 3
“Whoa, whoa, now.” Andre said, as Amaya continued to sob into his shoulder. Amaya had attempted to explain her situation, sans potentially b…
Chapter 4
Zachary Thorne finished his drink and prepared himself for an unpleasant afternoon. The tequila stung his throat as it went down and left hi…
Chapter 5
While devastatingly effective on the onset, a closer inspection of the developments on Cirrus Prime would have made laughably obvious the vi…
Chapter 6
Deep in a detention vault near the bottom level of Cirrus Prime, Prisoner Number XCY-100892 knew that she would die soon. The information th…
Chapter 7
Alicia was right - Amaya’s place was trashed. Entering her space, Amaya felt a growing sense of violation. Someone had searched all of her f…
Chapter 8
“I’m sorry, I must have heard incorrectly. I thought you said that you left her a voice message?” Thorne was furious. “Are we inviting her t…
Chapter 9
Thorne was right, this place really is spectacular, Anya Petrova thought to herself from her office view of the vivid colors below. All the…
Chapter 10
Prisoner Number XCY-100892 was certain that her time was up. The phone call had not produced the result that her captors had wanted, so they…
Chapter 11
The buildings were different here. De’Ante had driven them from near the center of Skyreach with its polished towers reaching to the heavens…
Chapter 12
The bolt from the security pistol had taken the guard instantly, and the nature of the entry wound ensured that blood spatter was minimum. W…
Chapter 13
The ping of an approved administrative request woke Vincent Gatska from his light doze. The warm light of morning coming through his window…
Chapter 14
“And you’re sure you understand the new responsibilities we’ll be entrusting you with?” “Yes, sir.” Bernardo Ervins remained in attention, a…
Chapter 15
Anya Petrova took the napkin from her lap and wiped her mouth. A server approached to take her empty plate and Petrova waved him away. She w…
Chapter 16
Amaya was tired. She thought she would have slept deeply and dreamless from the day’s excitement, but every time she approached rest a memor…
Chapter 17
Two guards were not enough, now the prisoner opened the last door between her and the lowest promenade of Cirrus. If she could reach the wal…
Chapter 18
“You saw her earlier in the day, and then she was gone?” Gatska asked, annoyed. He was tired of Blaithe Walters obvious attempts at obfuscat…
Chapter 19
Alicia sat up in her bed. She was alone and the sunlight shone brightly through her window, sun motes dancing all the way from the window to…
Chapter 20
Book 2 | Collapsing Earth Thorne looked out from his jet and marveled at the clouds below him. The billowing whites and the flowing grays, t…
Chapter 21
Amaya’s heart fluttered with hope. For the first time since yesterday morning, she felt like she had a clear direction to some answers about…
Chapter 22
Amaya’s heart fluttered with hope. For the first time since yesterday morning, she felt like she had a clear direction to some answers about…
Chapter 23
The drive from Alicia and Amaya’s tower to the Mosely hideout took about 45 minutes. On the return trip, however, De’Ante got them back to t…
Chapter 24
She heard the blood drip against the hard concrete floor of the closet she was hiding in. This wasn’t the safehouse she thought it had been,…
Chapter 25
“Tells it like it is? The rat tells you what you need to hear to feel justified in your rage! A day ago you thought he was an existential th…
Chapter 26
The shoulder radio was going bonkers; Gatska couldn’t understand what any of the Corporate or Jurisdiction officers on the channel were shou…
Chapter 27
Clarence Bartel Junior pressed the button that would take him up to his father’s penthouse office and the metallic lift doors slid closed no…
Chapter 28
The line buzzed cheerily as Zachary Thorne waited for his new tech contact, Olpha, to answer his call. Thorne didn’t like waiting on someone…
Chapter 29
Guns had always made Amaya nervous, so the walls and racks of tools designed for violence carried much less majesty than they apparently did…