Rion Duncan
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Partner and parent first and foremost, writer second. Author of the ongoing urban fantasy series The Idonia Saga. Professional nerd and amateur video game journalist. Follow me on Twitter @chosen4one to join the journey.
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Fever Dreams of a Dying City
Maurice jolted upright in bed, gasping for air as he sought to wrench his mind free from the fever dream in which it was lost. He blinked repeatedly, trying to focus on the room around him to pull himself back into reality. His eyes scanned the cabin and adjusted to the dark as he slowly came to grips with his surroundings. It was his third week in the mountainside cottage, and every night the dreams had grown steadily worse.
By Rion Duncan4 years ago in Fiction
The Cabin Ahead
Strider ran her fingers over the tattered picture another time. The scene within was hardly visible anymore. It was, after all, as old as she was. She mourned this inescapable truth as she stared at the tiny young girl in the picture. If that little girl had only known what lay ahead, she would have spent more time sitting alongside the rugged old man pictured beside her as the two watched the sunset over the field of flowers. Strider told herself that every adult felt that way at one point, but she knew it meant something utterly different after the Fall. It was no longer a sentiment of longing for more years of ignorant bliss and youthful wonder. Now, it was a sentiment of longing for just one more day before the world collapsed around them.
By Rion Duncan4 years ago in Fiction
The First Riddle
The sky had reached its darkest point outside the rundown warehouse as the two men stood checking their hand terminals, rereading the incoming message. They had meant to be home much earlier, but Piotr and Wyatt never managed to have evenings go as planned anymore. They had been studying the Inners’ scouting party for weeks in efforts to discover if they were simply Outriders or a grand Strider incursion, and the search had only grown stranger over time. For years the Inners had focused their expansion efforts on the southern regions, but slowly more and more scouting parties kept popping throughout the Frontier. The word coming from Boise was multiple Outriders were making routine trips into town day after day. Similar rumblings had come from Missoula to the north.
By Rion Duncan4 years ago in Fiction
The Frontier
Marshal pulled her cruiser over atop the mountain overlooking Jackson Lake. In one fluid motion, she threw her leg over the bike, sliding her lever-action from its holster on the bike and transferring it to her leg holster as she drew her scanner from the saddlebags. The gravel crunched under her boots as she walked towards the edge of the winding pass overlooking the valley. She attached the scanner to the side of her helmet, letting it survey the landscape and transfer the data to her visor’s display.
By Rion Duncan5 years ago in Fiction
