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Andrew Wincott
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The Knight Manager

Job Fourteen. No one knows why head office calls it Job Fourteen, but they do. It basically means making a note of all the perishable stock on the shelves that are going out of date the day after tomorrow. It helps make sure out of date items get reduced away before they become waste. Sure it saves Corporate a penny or two, but its drudge work. Still doesn’t explain the name though. It’s not a job anyone wants to do. But its a job that needs to be a done. No one said the life of a knight manager would be easy or glamorous, but we all serve our time. Its how we learn our craft, our trade. Control of the body, control over emotion. To provide for society not only protection from the horrors of this world but excellent customer service in line with our corporate guideline. I still remember the day I was inducted into the inner truth of the order. Though, at the time, I did not know of as such. To me as a young man, this was a stepping stone of a job, a chapter of a life yet to be

All

381 deviations
Literature

The Knight Manager

Job Fourteen. No one knows why head office calls it Job Fourteen, but they do. It basically means making a note of all the perishable stock on the shelves that are going out of date the day after tomorrow. It helps make sure out of date items get reduced away before they become waste. Sure it saves Corporate a penny or two, but its drudge work. Still doesn’t explain the name though. It’s not a job anyone wants to do. But its a job that needs to be a done. No one said the life of a knight manager would be easy or glamorous, but we all serve our time. Its how we learn our craft, our trade. Control of the body, control over emotion. To provide for society not only protection from the horrors of this world but excellent customer service in line with our corporate guideline. I still remember the day I was inducted into the inner truth of the order. Though, at the time, I did not know of as such. To me as a young man, this was a stepping stone of a job, a chapter of a life yet to be

Featured

358 deviations
Literature

DES-Big Bad Wolf

 It was the same at every convention. Perhaps not at the scifi ones, and definitely not at the ones that involved a little soft core taxidermy. But when the conventions you were invited too could affect your tenure, and the cherry red Jaguar sitting in the drive way, those ones were all the same. There would be presentations, always prefaced by the collage of 'fellow experts in my field' who would be denied co-authorship under pain of death. Then would come the barrage of hard core science, the high level stuff everyone nodded to and no one understood: this was the babble that the ambassadors to the bleeding edge turned into scrawls on ston

Tales From The Polity

38 deviations
Literature

LW-Chapter 11: Something Borrowed (READ DESC FIRST

 “She was never yours to keep.” The words struck with an odd sense of finality to them, as though they were a sentence handed down by some all-powerful arbiter. Benjamin merely sat where he was, listening not to the words of reason spoken truthfully, but to the sounds arising from the bed. Makira lay there upon the straw filled mattress, the evening traveller’s gown still upon her slight frame. But to say that she lay in restful repose would be a dishonest appraisal, a betraying of the hearts ability to delude itself. The gown of woven material was damp to the touch, the burning fever upon her brow producing a prodigious i

LW-Rise of the Valdren

12 deviations
Literature

Fishing On Europa 9

 She was falling apart. You couldn’t see the actual disintegration, the slow unravelling of the double helix as nucleotide sequences unlatched from each other. You couldn’t see the veins clogging up with the dust and debris from cellular necrosis, the littered battlefield her body’s defences had abandoned long ago. What you could see, in the wide angle lens of the entire body, were the effects of acute radiation poisoning rite large. The skin was deathly pale and clammy. The eyes blood shot and narrow as capillaries lost all hints of structural integrity. The hair follicles were the first to go, but that was prologue, that

Fishing On Europa

9 deviations
Literature

DES-Second Strike 14.2

 "-as of right now we don't have much information to go by. What we do know is that all contact the island of Sri Lanka has been cut off, and that before that there were reports of lights in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere. Confederacy spokesman have been tight lipped about what has happened but-...Wait, ladies and gentleman, we are receiving images now from our field office in Goa. These images are coming to us live at this-...Oh my god...Oh my god oh my god!" Breaking News, WBN DataNet news service, live broadcast, The Present +++ "And people drink this...for fun?" Amby nodded, lifted her own glazed clay tinkered up in salute to s

DES-Second Strike

25 deviations
Literature

How To Become A Made Man Pt19

 "Honey we're...home?" Doris's words rang through the lower floor of the Manhattan brownstone, as the quartet returned from the icy jaunt to the hothouse of information that was the Golden Mountain. Ddraig had been as helpful as he could be, which by his own gold plated standard was 'As helpful as I am paid to be'. As coin had not passed hands in any meaningful fashion, the Shen Lung had been tight lipped about anything meaningful apart from his little tid-bit to Doris: Cassandra and her fortune tellers were blind to future events, past a certain point. And why did that make Doris a whole lot more unsettled than she cared to be. Of cour

Made Man

20 deviations
Literature

LW-Sleeping Beauty

 The last sarcophagi hummed with a gentle energy to it, a kitten like purr of contentment that did not measure up to the miracle of its mechanism. Unlike the other coffins within the burial ark, this one was alight with an internal glow. Its glass did not hold back the foul fluids of a soul's mortal essence, but it also did not reveal the picturesque relief of their mortal shell. All the burial tombs he had witnessed, from the artesian depictions on canvas, to the modern catacombs of his own Paradise University, showed the dead on display as they were in life: but not as they were. The dead were hidden away behind a lid of wood, or a slab o

LW Sleeping Beauty

5 deviations
Literature

Long Winter Drabble

 “You think anything you say right now, means a Saints damned thing to me!” The fire chewing away at the eves of the hall listened eagerly as they ate, occasionally allowing crumbs of burning timbers to fall down to smash against the floor. This gave the air at ground level a heavy oder of rotting wood, mixed in with the choking aroma of smoke. It did nothing to hide the evidence of the past few hours, or the years of vacancy that had proceeded it. Broken tables lay against the walls where they had been pushed, hidden beneath the fallen and rotted banners of a forgotten family. The flag stones of the floor were scuffed with the

Long Winter

64 deviations
Literature

Errors of Truth Lost In Transit

WorldWideNewsCorp (WWN Corp) Internal Memorandum From: Guy Lerry, Vice President of Programming (Northern Hemisphere) To: Vincent Pintio, Producer of Quick Fire, ((CC: Olivia Durrum, Head of WWN Legal North America)) Topic: Re; Canned Paxton Interview 'Vin,  just been looking over the minutes of the interview your team recorded with Paxton, looks to be dynamite stuff. As always, great work from you guys in the trenches, we here in the Crystal Palace in Paris just wanted to remind you all of the praise we sing to you guys in the background here. We also wanted to address the reasons why we made the call to drop the interview, to keep you

Double Edged Sword

55 deviations
Literature

Mars 2 Life, Life 2 Mars (5.2)

 The AA implant in his wrist thrummed unnaturally under his skin as it worked to scrub the toxins of his liquid breakfast free of his body, leaving his mind with that crystal clear clarity that always seemed false and artificial. Which it was, seeing as that sparkly all knowing sensation was the implants way of softening the blow the eventual crash and mammoth headache would be later on. But then again, like many drinkers and drunks throughout the ages, John knew the after party paying the bill was always the worst part. Though the ride up from the train station to the city of Metronome proper was vying for second place. But that's getting

Barsoom Redux

5 deviations
Literature

Error Message

10.30 GMT...12/03/87... DATA PACKET UP LOADING FROM BELLE TERRE MONITORING STATION FIVE (NZP)... 10.31 GMT...12/03/87... DATA PACKET UP LOADED TO DEEP SPACE LINK TACH-NETWORK NODE BETA-6... 10.33 GMT...12/03/87... PARSING DATA FOR CORRUPTION PRIOR TO TRANSMISSION... (AUDIO FILE...RUN...) I don't know if your receiving this, but I'll keep transmitting. I'll keep calling into the darkness, calling to the brightest start in the sky, calling to you over a year and a half of light. I know I've been transmitting these messages for four years now, I'm not sure if you're getting tired of them or...or simply just ignoring them. But I know yo

Island In A River Of Stars

5 deviations
Literature

The Dog and the Sparrow Part 13

Murmuring into her bracelet, she again requested the directions to the Yachts, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, counted to 10, and swallowed, keeping her wits about her and her focus on staying alive. Nakali departed the steam filled chamber in a partially buttoned up shirt, a suit jacket draped over one shoulder, and his other hand tossing back a pair of pills with a wince of dry swallowing. He winced again when he saw the look on Tarra's face and held up a hand. "Before the scathing begins, might I offer a defence to the court, huum?" he asked as he turned on his heel and placed a few folded credit notes into 'Tiny's hand, before turn

The Dog And The Sparrow

13 deviations

Working Stiff

2 deviations
Literature

Merlin-Bridge To No Where Pt4

 The figure appeared before Merlin in what was probably the second day since the attack. He had placed money on at least holding out for a week before the hallucinations began. The time since the attack had been taken up with caring for the wounded Morgan, who had deemed the corporeal world to demeaning to experience anything less than a few minutes of it before submitting herself to the time dilation of her interior thought processes. Within her own mind she could while away countless life times of experience with herself for perfect company, without having to muddy her hands with the cruelties of an immobile reality that was not under her

Merlin

4 deviations
Literature

ClockWork: Dotting the I's Pt3

 It staggered from the tree line in a bluster of burning sap and snapping twigs, the heavy chemical taint of ozone filling the air as the thing was gamely had at by the proctor. The mechanical guardian writhed to and fro from its tail, swinging on a wild parabola that brought its belly mounted laser into line with its mammoth target every few swings. The brilliant cyan blue beam only aided in highlighting the monster that swayed towards them. A few thousand years ago the largest rock was a super weapon, then someone melted the rock and made metal from its ore. The sword which was made was then attached to a long wooden stick and fired from

ClockWork

3 deviations
Literature

Bob VS The Fruit Bowl Pt5

 When they termed the phrase 'Open and shut case', they must have had Bob Dalian Faulks in mind. Go look it up, I'll wait, for I am sure that you will find his vacant eyed glare staring back at you from the pages holding that definition. He didn't offer a defence in his name, or an argument against the claims of the prosecution to change the tact of their sails to present himself in a somewhat better light. He was a defence lawyer's worst dream come to life: a truly guilty man. The best they could hope for was a speedy trial; the better to keep their firms name from being associated with the likes of an incompetent mad man with a thing for

VS The Fruit Bowl

5 deviations
Literature

Two Days of Miracles

 The cold chill of the morning crept slowly from the minds of those fortunate to know the joys of central heating and warm clothing. The twenty seventh day of the month of December heralded a begrudging return to work after the holidays, a blow softened only by the fact that New Years day and its own day off from professional obligation was coming along soon. People milled about the streets, coming and going in their throngs, desperate to attain more commercial property at rock bottom prices in the prelude to the January sales. Children cried as they were pulled away from Christmas toys to accompany busy parents on their errands, their baby

Miracle Days

4 deviations
Literature

Ill WIll 2

 Time is not the forward progression of events, but the acceptance of random acts as coincidental order. Causality is the affliction of the mammal mind, the flow of time the incomprehensible fractal design of reality itself. Time occurs to all of us in a single rush; its progression appears as our way of digesting this onslaught, of seeing order in chaos. The Ramblings of the Odd Number King, King Beshin V11, Book of Enlightened Ramblings, Unknown Sapling Race/Unknown Culture/Unknown Local +++ The city was called Perambulation, for that was what it did. The city walked across the scared and charred surface of its world, treading a path

Ill Will

2 deviations
Literature

The Girl With The Clockwork Heart Pt4

+++"The Girl with the Clockwork Heart"+++ +++A Tale from the Memoirs of Professor Adventure+++ +++Part 4: The First High Speed Chase, But Not The Last+++ The fog outside of the British Museum was almost as bad as the smoke pouring out of the museums lower levels. The fog itself was light, allowing for excellent visibility in the midmorning sunshine. But the scents of the Thames were many and manifold their scents either deceivingly pleasing or bluntly offensive. There were not many cities in the world that could tease the senses with the scent of roses in one instance and in the next bludgeon it with raw sewage. But Anna would choose to

Prof Adventure

4 deviations
Literature

Original Cap'n Tarot

 “Well, at least the tax man seems happy.” Seth smiled at his companion for the noon time repast as he nodded at the aforementioned tax collector. The city official, dressed in heavy down over coat and a woollen hat to fend off the chilled high winds that ripped across the city’s wide battlements, walked away with something of a spring in his step even though he was no twenty gold pieces heavier. “Ain’t the taxman I’m worried about.” Keth nodded towards the approaching figure of the woman who was now twenty gold pieces lighter in weight than she had been a moment before. Unlike the tax collector,

Scraps

19 deviations