Act Of Oblivion Novels & Stories

"No. Here. Right now. Can't wait." "Demanding. I like it." His hands were already working on my clothes. "Tell me what you need." "You. Hard. Fast. Make me forget everything except us." Something dark and possessive flashed in his eyes. "Yes, ma'am." He spun me around, pressing me against the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Manhattan. The city sprawled below us, millions of lights, millions of lives, and we were about to... "Damien, the windows—people can see—"

A life that was already a weapon in a war I didn’t understand. A glint of metal on the desk caught my eye. A letter opener. Old, cheap, the handle molded into the shape of a sailing ship. I picked it up. It was cold and sharp. The thought was there, instantaneous and horrifying. A final, desperate act of defiance. To rob the garden of its seed. To choose oblivion over being used. My fingers tightened around the handle. The point hovered over my abdomen. My hand trembled. I couldn’t do it.

Aziz’s POV The obsidian veil opened and I moved through it. The obsidian dimension is a place humans cannot see, a seam between good and evil, where no light can shine to reveal our shadows. Humans can’t detect it. For me it is a road I run so often my feet remember the stones. Tonight I used it like a blade. Demon speed folds distance into a blink and turns the world into a blur of colors. My thoughts raced faster than my feet. White fur. White. How?

variable—a value that was mathematically infinite. $$V_{emotion} \rightarrow \infty$$ $$\text{ERROR: } \text{OVERFLOW IN ROOT DIRECTORY}$$ The geometric shapes of the Overmind began to spin violently. The black liquid of the deletion stopped. Umbra let out a horrific shriek as his "Anti-Resonance" body began to dissolve into pure, white light. "You... you're breaking the machine!" Umbra gasped, his form shrinking. "We aren't breaking it," Elara said, her face inches from his. "We're Unplugging it."

“Cipher turned into … an experiment. A test. To see in case your species should evolve on its own .” Ethan clenched his fists. “And Phoenix?” The parent tilted its head slightly. “A… correction.” My belly twisted. “Correction for what?” The air withinside the ISS felt heavier because it responded. “For your failure.” The Truth About Humanity I felt sick. Vanessa’s voice whispered via the comms. “Anita… I simply decrypted extra of the Oblivion file.” I inhaled sharply. “Tell me.” Vanessa hesitated. Then, in a voice slightly above a whisper, she spoke.

He was right. Something had loosened, and I hadn’t noticed it happening because I’d been too busy counting days, managing checklists, and standing in kitchens for eleven minutes after a man left. It had happened anyway. Without asking my permission. Three items remaining. I opened item fifteen. And got back to work.