The Silo Novels & Stories

Her throat tightened painfully. “Thank you,” she managed. “Three days,” Silas said again, softer now, and then he was gone, melting back into the tree line the way he’d come, leaving Sloane standing alone in the ruined mill with her mother’s pendant held tight in one fist and an impossible decision now resting squarely on her own shoulders.

Horror tore across Silas's face as the rental bike dropped from his hand and hit the pavement with a clang. That was his studio! Sil Studio, filled with his original Urban Memories sketches and everything he had worked so hard to build. Silas broke into a dead sprint, charging against the freezing wind toward the building now engulfed in flames.

I glare at him, my brows frowned. "She most certainly does. See I pretty much know everything about our students except her. She doesn't talk about her family and nobody at The Academy seems to know anything either. Even the information given to the school after she joined was vague...” He takes a sip of his beer, his eyes trained on me, “All the school knows about the Silent Student is that she comes from a rich family that possibly has connections to the chairman and that her name is Atlas Winters. She's practically a ghost at The Academy. Did you know that her age isn’t even in our system?"

NICHOLAS, seems like the world revolve around that dude. "I...I...gotta...go" I stammered heading back. "Unbelievable" I muttered as I turned my back. I spent my day thinking about the whole freaking thing, I couldn't concentrate in class, and during shooting training, I keep missing the target, there was a call for team assembly after class, and the announcement was made, I officially become a beta...many beta were demoted, why? Our intelligent quotient was raised by 4 because of the climbing, the secret mission and the few tests we Were given, this surpass many of the beta.

Wow the chatter box is permanently silent "Mr Raza Shoaib thank Allah for the voice you have and ask Allah's forgiveness for what you've said." Baba concluded did I just day that out loud "yes you did" mehek said. Whatever at least the only pro of this marriage would be her being mute and not eating my head off. But then again why did they separate.

Goof Two months to go before Silvy brings our baby into the world and I can’t wait. I feel our baby moving everyday. I have watch Silvy’s belly grow as our baby gets bigger. Soon I will have our baby in my arms watching them grow from the outside of Silvy. There is still so much to do before that happens. I have been moving my stuff into Silvy’s house little by little. I know Silvy has noticed but she hasn’t said anything about it yet. I’m living in her house and have been for a month. I have been waiting for Silvy to say something ever time I come home. Home. That is exactly what I feel when I walk through the front door. Silvy is my home and where I belong. Me staying in the house with her

The only light left was the dull orange glow of the overheating server cores, melting into a puddle of silicon and gold. Silas Hale stood in the dark. He knew that the doors were now unlocked, the elevators were dead, and the cameras were dark. He was no longer the Architect: he was just an old man in a basement. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his silver pocket watch. He thought of the baby, the child who would now be born into a world of "Noise" without a plan. "Miller," Silas said into the darkness. "Forget the woman. Forget the girl."

A woman with a broken spiral tattooed across her throat. “No,” Dalen spat. “She brings delay. We don’t need silence. We need answers. And if she won’t give them” A quiet ripple through the bloomlight silenced the rest of his sentence. They all turned. Siran had moved. Just a hand. Just a shift in posture. But it was enough. The spiral beneath her pulsed once, glowing faintly in response. And the wind, which had been still, whispered one word none of them could quite catch but all of them remembered differently.

3rd Person. It was silent. The physical distance between Gabbie and Kiel is not even a meter apart but the internal barrier felt like a kilometer long. No one is breaking the silence or even planning to at any moment. They both want to savor the relationship that is at the risk to change with the news that Gabbie is very willing to hide forever but about to spill.

"You enjoy this, don't you? Seeing me like this." Silas shrugged nonchalantly. "I enjoy winning, Silvio. Always have." Silvio's jaw clenched, his eyes narrowing. "This isn't over. You can't keep me here forever." Silas leaned in, his voice a low whisper that cut through the tension. "Oh, I don't plan to keep you here forever. Just long enough to watch everything you built crumble. Starting with your precious wife."