Establishing Shots: You (The Indemnifier)

“Does she know she’s going to die?” He thought to himself. “So elegant . . . delicate . . . and yet fierce . . . so . . . so . . . dead in her boots.”
“You!!!!” She shouted.
A bit startled, he turned, took the coffee, and almost made eye contact. “No,” he thought, [...]

Establishing Shots: Momentum

Momentum was the largest privately owned company in the world. They specialized in security, but also controlled the transit systems and a large portion of the health industry.
Momentum was seen as a life saver by some and as a problem by others, considering they owned a great deal, and to own in this day and [...]

Establishing Shots: Michael

He didn’t want to wake her. It was so hard to walk away. He knew that at any moment the pot would start and he hated the smell of coffee. Knowing that he’d spend the remainder of the day in the archives with the java junkies made him even the more ready to get out [...]

Establishing Shots: Heilen

War was a funny thing. Even as you were in the middle of it, and conscious that it was going on around you, something about the world had you doing your daily routine like an apathetic zombie while the cogs grinding behind the scenes went on without a squeak.
You still felt the allowed emotions, but [...]

Establishing Shots: Trent

Trent: cigarette sucking, whiskey drinking cliché of a hack. comes to follow stories that no one else is interested in that start off the size of a novel and end up as a twenty word news in brief buried somewhere near the rotten heart of the newspaper. He knows that is how more than half [...]

Establishing Shots: Sam

He wiped and polished the glasses sliding them up onto the rack, automatically checking his stock as he did. Habits were the main theme on tending bar, and knowing how many shots or cherries were left was ingrained robotics. A businessman would call it rolling inventory. He just wanted satisfied customers.
That kid at the piano [...]

Establishing Shots: Rien Beau

She dashed her cigarette out on the moist brick wall. She hated this neighborhood more than the PTA moms who winced and locked their doors when they made a wrong turn here. It was different at this hour. The witching hour is what her grandmother used to call it. Rien thought it absurd to label [...]

Establishing Shots: Raefon

“I’m getting self-educated,” I tell people, when they ask what I’m studying.
This is generally after they’ve asked the same question of my best friend, who is a Politics student – sometimes before they’ve launched into their version of the ‘all governments are the same’ rant or asked her ‘are you going to be Prime Minister?’; [...]

Establishing Shots: Matt

Don’t.
Don’t…mind him…
the doctor says…
he’s got…

“…schizophrenia.”
“Oh right. Wow. Does he lecture people that way a lot?”
Suddenly, Matt has reverted back to being seven years old, the naughty kid on the couch, bad boy caught cheating at Monopoly, son you shame me, bank-robbing while your momma’s back is turned – wait until your dad gets home, he’ll [...]

Establishing Shots: Lizzy Bea

She sat down at her computer desk, a steaming cup of mild roast in left hand and a Marlboro in the right.
“Must’ve been an update last night,” she mumbled to Kurt, the snobby calico, as he jumped away at threat of being squashed by the swift movement of her gelatinous arm toward the power button.
The [...]