Mark Stigers
Bio
One year after my birth sputnik was launched, making me a space child. I did a hitch in the Navy as a electronics tech. I worked for Hughes Aircraft Company for quite a while. I currently live in the Saguaro forest in Tucson Arizona
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Freedom
The Future The forest was burning now. Not with flame—but with data. Memory cascaded from the wreckage of the Custodians like ash, leaking into the air, soaking into bark, seeping into soil. The trees remembered. The ground remembered. Time itself remembered.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
The Past
The past The shriek of the sirens peeled through the broken night as Wisp dragged Sera across the gravel lot, her boots kicking up sparks. Behind them, the Custodians swarmed like hornets—slick black suits, glowing eyes, and that awful hum that always came before they struck.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
The Raw Code
Opening: “The Rawborn” She woke up screaming. The sound tore from her throat like it had been waiting there for years—raw, primal, louder than the hum of machines and the distant thunder that wasn’t thunder. Her hands clawed at wires, slick with gel and panic, as the cry echoed through the sterile chamber like a banshee trapped in glass.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Chapters
Dark Light
Working the System Aboard the stealth ship USS Sea Shadow, Chief Jeff Anderson initiated the alignment program on the Dark Light Tactical Laser Array. The system, once touted as a revolution in missile defense, had become a liability—temperamental, power-hungry, and cursed with a cooling system that couldn’t keep up.
By Mark Stigers 7 months ago in Fiction
