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General O: The Checkmate
Prev: General O: The Cannon in Council Okello was in hot soup. A deal had gone wrong—quietly, expensively, irreversibly. The fault lay where his heart ached most: with his son, […] More
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My Brother’s Keeper
The cracked asphalt of Highway 99 bled heat under the twin suns of Solstice. Dust hung like ash in the air, swirling in aimless patterns between collapsed overpasses and rusted […] More
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VANGORL: THE FASTEST CHARACTER IN ALL OF FICTION
VANGORL ALSO KNOWN AS THE FASTEST VILLAIN CLONE ALIVE. THIS IS A STORY FROM THE REBOOTED VERSI9N OF WAIZEDHA KNOWN AS LUVICEBI BY ; MWESIGWA VICENT MUWANGUZI ISAAC MUTEBI RAPHAEL […] More
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SLOW DEATH
I It is a normal day in the dusty streets of the small rural town of Ingwavuma as eonian litter and eye-poking dust fly in the air behind a speeding […] More
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General O: Redemption
Prev: General O: The Checkmate Okello lay in the hospital bed, surrounded by blue-white walls, wide windows, and a floor streaked with muted red—an unspoken reminder of battles fought in […] More
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General O: The Wilderness Trial
Prev: General O: Subsurface Silence Behind Enemy Line The rebel stronghold collapsed without sound, but the environment did not rest.Okello remained in position. The rebel stronghold had collapsed without sound, but […] More
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Why is This Apartment so Cold?
Bethany’s eyes flew open. 6:30 a.m. Time to get up. She hated mornings. Not because of the waking, but because she never woke up like other people. No yawns, no […] More
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General O: The Monkey King and the Broken Lance
It was a Monday morning—one of those mornings that feel ordinary until they redefine everything you thought you knew about danger, power, and survival. I remember the knock. Not loud. […] More
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General O: Container 13B with a Tear Drop
A few weeks earlier, the Parliament and its subordinates had sat in bitter argument over the surveillance system. Charges were pressed. Calls for personal decertification filled the chambers. Every minister, […] More
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General O: Area 56
The coordinates were never meant to be read by ordinary navigation systems. To understand them correctly, one had to return to an older discipline—one that existed long before satellites, digital […] More
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THE LOCKED ROOM CONTRACT
The Signature On the morning of her wedding, Areeba Khan realized she did not feel like a bride. Brides were supposed to glow. To tremble with excitement. To blush when […] More
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The Silent Gavel: Anita Among’s Covert Pilgrimage to Rome (Part One)
Anita Among’s knees were red and swollen from over half-an-hour of kneeling before the Sistine Chapel’s painting of The Last Judgment. Her face was puffy from crying, eyes bloodshot. Smudges […] More
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in Fiction, Identity & Culture, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Thrillers and Horrors, Writing and LiteratureLife in Exile: Act Three – The Return of Shadows(Chapter Seventeen: The Ghost and the Cave (part IV))
Chapter Seventeen: The Ghost and the Cave (part IV) As Peter struggled to recover, my own thoughts began connecting the scattered pieces of a puzzle that had haunted us since […] More
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Does AI Sleep? A haunting treatise by Alinta Kanse
Kisakye never told anyone about the three AIs. Not because it was shameful. Mostly because it sounded lonely when you said it out loud. She was forty-three, rented a two-bedroom […] More
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The Silicon Scramble: Why Africa is the Ghost in the Global AI Machine
The global conversation about Artificial Intelligence always takes place in rooms with very expensive air conditioning. There, in Davos or Silicon Valley, suits with teeth too straight and smiles too […] More
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in Fiction, Politics and Government, Thrillers and Horrors, Travel and Adventure, Writing and Literature
Life in Exile: Act Three – The Return of Shadows
Chapter Fifteen: The Old, the Tired and the Restless Morning arrived quietly over the plains of Namasagali in Kamuli District, though little remained to suggest that this forgotten place had […] More
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Life in Exile: Act Two – The Bridge of Silence
Chapter Ten: The Weight of Small Things Fate seldom announces itself with thunder. More often, it arrives disguised as an ordinary morning, hidden among familiar roads, delayed appointments and faces […] More
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The gods work in mysterious ways
‘Damn those colonialists, their pale skins and their bibles!’ Shilotu cursed. Shilotu was a god of dreams and he’d earmarked the African region for himself. Yeah, that’s how things worked […] More
