Zompoc Survivor: Odyssey (24 page)

From The Paean of Sundered Dreams!

At the end of the world, one woman holds the only key to the future, written in madness and blood.

Fifteen years after the events in
Rationality Zero
, Earth falls to an apocalypse that none could have seen. In this whisper of a possible future, the worst nightmare of the Facility comes into being.

But is it true? Or are we simply peering into the mind of a deranged woman, who cannot tell fact from fiction?

In this odd story, which nestles uncomfortably into the timelines of
Rationality Zero
,
The Herald of Autumn
,
Collateral Damage
, and
The Primary Protocol
,
Rational Earth falls to the darkness of the Shroud.   Will our world recover from the desolation of darkness and madness that storms at the center of creation? Or, like the world of
Cæstre
, will all that man has wrought be lost?

None can say. Whether terrifying truth or irrational fantasy, one young woman holds the fate of all in her trembling hands.

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This was my first time stepping into a world brought to life by JM Guillen and I am still in awe of his words.

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The Wormwood Event

first in the Paean of Sundered Dreams!

The world is not what it seems.

Michael Bishop has is an Asset of the Facility
—
a job that comes with many strange perks. He is a man who never gets ill, who never pays taxes. He is effortlessly fit, and has a different woman every night of the week.

That is, when he is not on assignment.

When activated, Michael becomes Asset 108, an enhanced human who stands against the strange darkness that lurks at the edge of our world.

Armed with equipment that most would find impossible to comprehend, he is sent on missions both strange and deadly. Each dossier pits him against irrational creatures and beings
—
most with the power to unravel his sanity, or reality itself.

It’s never a simple job.

This one, however, is more complex than most. Mysterious unknown targets are fracturing reality, somewhere in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The Facility has no other Assets in the area, and their telemetry is spotty at best. Without knowing what to expect, Bishop is activated, assigned to a cadre, and sent to the middle of nowhere.

What he finds there is both the beginning and the end.

Rationality Zero