Chapter 24: Mariel Barbeau
On this episode of Mindframe, we revisit Mariel Barbeau (previously known as Josephine). She is close to a full repair and relaunch of the Old Dame Hotel, and she’s eager for Uncle Alphie to get there. She doesn’t expect the what happens to her reality as a result–both her and her chapters will never be the…
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Chapter 23: Grim Boliver
Penny touched Grim’s stomach, danced her fingertips to the burn scars from when the Maglici family had him in chains, hit him with electricity, and put cigars out on his flesh. She slunk behind him, her hands touching each of the other scars that blossomed on his back, from where he was whipped at that…
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Chapter 22: Sophie Arnez
The air smelled of smoke mixed with rainy air seeping in through the back doors, but tainted by the scent of iron and spilled life. Marcellus lay still, legs tucked in a strange angle nobody could ever maintain. Blood pooled under him. It was starting to drip off the edge of the spotlight walkway like…
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Chapter 21: Captain Campana
The gossamer death orbs bounced off the Framing Chamber and couldn’t penetrate its odd hull. One touched a marine, passing through his calf, and he instantly lit ablaze with a white phosphorescent flame. The second marine screamed something and ran to his aid, but another white ball danced through the bulkhead and into his chest,…
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Prelude Two: Part Two – Sheriff Hilt Burhan
“Using this practice, we enter the dreams of a subject. The reason for this Dream Tap is to assist in especially difficult or tricky investigations. People’s memories are faulty at best. Witnesses lie, or are scared, or were so traumatized by what they witnessed that they can’t accurately recall things. In forensic dreaming, none of…
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Prelude Two: Part One – Sheriff Hilt Burhan
Hilt’s brain registered only four details about the men that were important. First, the man to his right was holding a sophisticated military shotgun. Second, the one to his left held a highly customized sidearm. Third, the one with the shotgun was raising his shoulders. Fourth, the one with the pistol was lowering his shoulders….
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Chapter 20: Marcellus Ball
This darkness would drift over Desi lately. She was hiding something, keeping an emotion deep inside of her like she did. She paused and shifted to her back and stared up into the darkness. Marcellus laid his head against her breast, the perfect place, and heard her heart beat. It was a heavier sound than…
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Chapter 19: Grim Boliver
Grim knew that only the individual person made an area dangerous. He also knew that he was the only person here in danger, based on his isolated location and lack of guards or surveillance. This type of mistake was how he got caught by the Maglichi’s in Italy before he was tortured. In Chapter 19…
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Chapter 18 Part Two: Captain Campana
Josephine was Claire’s Framer. Her father’s second widow. This woman watched him die and had spent the past year and a half mourning his loss. That was more than Claire ever did for the man. She went on with training, fired a gun at the man’s funeral in salute, and eagerly got upvoted to become…
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Chapter Eighteen Part One: Captain Campana
“The seamless perfection of the white shell of the Framing Chamber looked as if an egg suddenly had a crack in it. The crack widened, moved with a purpose and shape. The portal appeared, and the thing was seamless no more. There was a pop and a hiss of air exchanging, and it slid open. Inside,…
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