Serpent and the Sun

Serpent and the Sun – Chptr. 17 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Apep screamed viscerally, from the depths of his host’s throat. The heart was silenced; Dalton Henry could tell him no more. A shot took out the brain. Must have been the other one, the strange one from Pacific Sanctuary. Apep would […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 16 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Apep was Death in the sky; the sanguine flow of air formed an updraft as it gathered about his suspended form. He peered down at the city of Anchorage. It teemed with life. Mortified, panic-stricken beetles, scurrying from houses to bunkers, dare […]

Serpent and the Sun – Chptr. 14 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The Boardroom resonated with the sound of muffled screaming. People were dying in the floors below. Liu couldn’t imagine the agony that was overtaking them, but he knew the form; AV3. It was impossible; the virus at its quickest took two […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 13 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The board chamber burst into black vapor, a grainy obsidian sandstorm of gnats in a swarm of locusts. President Liu covered his ears with his palms, as pins-and-needles raked across his exposed skin. He ventured to remove one of his hands to […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 10 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. President Liu waited patiently outside the office of the President of Everest. His boss. In fact, the boss of the whole un-heathen world, one might say. Liu was called at three o’clock in the morning; his presence requested in six hours. He […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 9 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Jameson swallowed the lump in his throat as he heard Blake’s approach. Though he couldn’t see out into the hallway, the footfalls were unmistakable; thundering hard enough to shake the mug of coffee Jameson had just heated up. He would in any […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 8 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. “Gentleman, I apologize that we must meet on such short notice,” said President Liu, “But recent developments have forced me to call in a special session.” The round, polished-marble table was ringed with Presidents, some ill-dressed for a business meeting. It had […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 7 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. “Adam, please pay attention.” “Why do you drink this stuff… coffee?” Adam was sitting behind a table with a cup of digital coffee in his right hand. It looked just like the one Jameson had. Adam was starting to show age, though […]

Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 6 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Jameson paced his office on the fourth floor, his desk overburdened with dusty-jacketed books. Law books. Or what used to be law books. Now they were relics, artifacts of a time when behavior was regulated by something other than corporate whim. However, […]