Blood Meridian James Franco Novels & Stories

Both Vero and Iki were shocked, causing them to fall backward instantly. "What's this, Vero?" asked Julio, and in an instant, Diana's irises returned to their original color, which was blue. "Impossible!" said Vero. "Red...? Did I just see blood-red eyes? A color that only vampires have?” Iki thought. Diana got up quickly and went straight to where Ika and Fos were fighting. She immediately entered the battle arena, attacked Fos blindly, and on the one hand continued to try to avoid Ika's attacks that were shown to her.

The colour of her face was slowly going to back to normal. Serra’s heart almost stopped as she looks at her friend. Crowd of thoughts swirl on her mind like a hurricane. Their eyes met and Serra could see fear, confusion and horror on her eyes. Her cloudy mind started to clear and a realization started to solidify in her mind, clearing the whirlpool of thoughts. Her heart skipped a beat. "Badblood!" Maddy said, choking the words out. She stood up and the colors now back on her face but she's still breathing heavily. She pointed at Mira. "Badblood!" Then she ran.

she heard herself say in a flat tone. The unfortunately named Mr. Francis Arthur actually did resemble an amphibian, diminutive of stature, bald, and big-jowled, with moist black eyes that were disproportionately large for his face. However, his gaze was keenly intelligent, and he wore a demeanor of gravity and responsibility that Loveth immediately liked. “Miss . Raymond .” He came forward to shake hands. “Thank you for agreeing to see me. I regret that we have not met under happier circumstances. I have come to deliver a piece of very urgent news.”

"Memory manipulation? That's science fiction." "Not anymore," Franco replied. "The prototype worked. Too well. It's why I had to disappear—why Carlos helped me fake my death." "And why my mother killed him?" Alex asked, pieces falling into place. Franco's expression softened with regret. "Geneva discovered Carlos was planning to sell a limited version to select governments. She confronted him, things escalated..." "But why is James involved?" Alex asked as they prepared the lifeboat. "Because James underwent the earliest trials," Franco revealed. "His loyalty to your family isn't natural—it was programmed."

The moment I heard the news, I ran there as fast as I could. In my panic, I crossed against a red light. A car hit me. When I was dying, the system appeared. It told me that if I completed a mission, I would receive a reward. The reward would be saving my brother from the accident. I agreed without hesitation. The first time I saw Derrick, I was stunned. He looked so much like Franklin that the word slipped out before I could stop myself. “Brother.” Taking care of Derrick for three years had not only been because of the system’s mission.

JUSTIN: I could still see his pale eyes in my head, it was etched in my memory, woven so tightly..I'll never forget, the way his blood looked on my hands, how he held my shirt gasping for air, how I screamed for help and nothing…no one came. I stare blankly at the ceiling trying to force myself to sleep but my eyes wouldn't just close, I didn't blink, I didn't move, it was like I was watching my body be still and I couldn't do anything about it. I sigh and sit up, internally groaning, trying to put myself together, I look at the clock and it was just two in the morning, why was I always awake by odd hours? I stand up and go to my kitchen, just on the kitchen island laid the flash drive from

A week passed. Seven long days since I saw that man bleeding on the floor of Club Rosario. I kept thinking about his face—the sharp jaw, the shadow of a beard, those dark eyes filled with something heavy, like pain or rage. He didn’t even say his name before he vanished. No call. No message. Not even a damn thanks. And me? I was still stuck in the same cycle: washing dishes at the diner, counting every penny for Mama’s pills, pretending my sister, Carmen didn’t exist.

“Have you seen how damn big we’ve made them? How strong? We trained them to fight just to show what is possible to do to humans and how much damage they can take with the new batch of rapid-healing medicines. Do you know how many billions of dollars in contracts we’re looking at? How much money we’ve already made so far? They are our prototypes. Showing what we can make them do, how fast, strong, and lethal they are is going to be the research for Mercile that blows our competitors out of the water. Every guy will want to buy what we’ve stirred up. That damn Jacob could have cost us a prime one. He’s too valuable to take risks with.” Her eyes closed to hide her relieved tears. They wouldn’t