Over the next two weeks, as he was debriefed at a secret location somewhere in the southwest and gradually freed from the persona — and the misdeeds — of Robert ‘Sonar’ Marshall, Abbe Sennett also learned a great deal more from his debriefers of the effects of the raid on…

Workers recovering bodies from the devastation wrought by the terrorists to the Eden infrastructure had earlier that morning placed Ralph’s seemingly lifeless body in a long row along with the other corpses awaiting further processing by the Dare County medical examiner and the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security, which…

There had been no signs of trouble in Eden as the two dozen men dressed in camouflage gear, their faces covered in balaclavas, moved stealthily down the mountain shortly after midnight on an otherwise quiet Sunday evening in late May. The Eden project had been underway for a little over…

As it turned out, Ralph was free the next morning and so the three of them — Ralph Deigh, Phil Anthropod, and Daniel Messinger — met for breakfast in the coffee shop that was part of the cooking school at the Mechanics Institute. Serge Amien, the lead instructor in pastry…

None of them had seemed to notice the man and woman talking outside the elevator as they stepped off. “What is it you wanted to ask me about?” Freddie asked her companion. “Cane is waiting for me. We’re going to take the funi up the mountain and hike back down…

“The Spanish had very clear ideas about what their cities in the new world should look like,” Carlos Juan Baker said to his good friend as they walked along the riverbank between the Labyrinth and the water’s edge, “much like their cities in the old world. The English who came…

Ralph Deigh opened his eyes, gradually becoming conscious of the surroundings that seemed strange at first and then, suddenly, familiar. He realized he must be at the homeless shelter he used to stay at on cold, winter nights when he first got back from his last military service in Iraq…

Since first learning of the existence of Cibola, Ralph Deigh was fascinated by what he had come to understand of its unique fusion culture. In some respects, each of the component cultures and language groups that made up the community had retained elements of its origins while contributing to the…

The Thursday evening salon group were involved in a variety of activities to uncover additional facets of the Cibola community out of the public eye and to promote the interests of the community. One of the strangest and most amusing of these tales has been past down to a number…