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UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 5. "THE WAY IT WAS" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2017
His head still ached from the rutting probe but after the men had satisfied themselves that his story was true a thousand questions peppered the air like machine gun fire.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 4. "MEANS TO AN END" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2017
The vessel was shiny, sleek and black with nowhere near the bulk of an Alliance ship. Something about the way it moved through the Black was more than a little creepifying.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 3 "Hell Hath No Fury" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Personally she didn't care if Serenity was towed off to a junk yard and stripped into spare parts. She had promised the ship to Jer and his crew as a bonus but it looked like scavengers had beaten them to it.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 2. "Counting Chickens" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016
The fact that her eyes were hard and sharp with intelligence kind of chilled him. Smart women always made him uneasy, it just weren't natural.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. "Gift Horse" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015
What in the nine hells were they so afraid of? Then he remembered Tracy. The body mailed to them by their old war buddy and all the trouble that had brought down on them.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 11. "Inside Out" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 9   DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015
If it was too gorram wet to hunt for rabbits what in the nine hells was his son really hunting? And was it something on four legs or two?
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 10. "Masks" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2015
The man was in a terrible condition, his pulse weak, and for some reason he was soaking wet which did nothing to staunch the blood soaking through his clothing and seeping from the poorly tended wound where he had been shot.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 9. "All The King's Men" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015
The man sighed like the weight of the of the 'Verse was on his shoulders but unlike anyone else he looked like he could carry the weight.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 8. "All The King's Horses" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Without warning something came through the opening and rolled with a metallic clang across the ground before exploding.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 7. "Friend or Foe" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2015
Then he found himself falling, the whole world silent as in slow motion the hordes of *diyu* came to swallow him up and everything disintegrated in fire, blood and pain.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 6. "Friends You Choose" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2015
It was a sound he recognised from the War, didn't forget the sound of a man drowning on his own blood.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 5. "Serendipity" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015
A smile tugged at his lips then he fell over the lip and into that deep dark abyss where nightmares lived only this time it was empty. A big yawning nothing ready to swallow him up.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 4. "Baby Steps" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
Carefully he merged with the darkness, easily treading quiet and soft not knowing who or what might mark his passing. A man could never be too careful especially when there was a noose with your name on it.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 3. "New Start" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
Was this the way to the rutting scaffold? Funny but he thought that banging sound as the scaffold was being built had seemed a lot nearer.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 2. "In Between" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2015
Carefully he looked around his tiny cell then up at the barred window high above his head. He was a tall man but even he could not reach it let alone pull himself up high enough to look out of it.
THE DICHOTOMY SERIES: 1. "Between Here and There" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2014
Taking a slow breath as deep into his lungs as pain would allow, he tried to shake that old brainpan back into action again. One last hurrah for those as could not do it for themselves.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 73. "Beyond the Cradle" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2014
Inwardly she shuddered, suddenly wondering whether she had made the right decision after all but then survival had not been her idea or even in her power to choose.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 72. "The 'Verse In A Grain of Sand" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014
A thin humourless smile cracked tight lips in the pale face, eyes dark and pitiless read the visual code. A single button pressed, the blinking light vanished. The pilot readied his vessel for pursuit mode.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 71. "The Mouth Of Madness" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014
Silence. Suddenly the absence of his tormentors was kind of frightening, balancing out the relief with a sense of a doom temporarily suspended.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 70. "Milk Run" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2014
As they approached the infirmary they could hear voices inside. Both paused to listen before entering, a lifetime of caution that had taught them the value of gleaning information from each and every source available to them.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 69. "Inside Out" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014
Now they had that girl out of the escape pod everything had changed and not for the better neither. Who knew how long he had before his gorram cover was blown?
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 68. "A Better World" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Immediately three Gate Keepers slammed down blocking her out. So. They knew enough to protect each other by combining forces. Interesting.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 66. "Wild Card" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2014
Before the Captain could finish his sentence there was a soft hiss and the sealed hatched popped up and slid open. Mal and Jayne took a hasty step back, startled by the unexpected movement. Zoe stepped passed them and peered through the opening.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 67. "Choices" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014
Sometimes she forgot the depth and breadth of Malcolm Reynolds paranoia. And sometimes when they were entwined in passion she fancied he forgot it too but this was not that time.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 65. "Trojan" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014
It should have been obscene talking about the children as if they were no more than parts of a recipe but he had an ace up his sleeve. One long looked for and never found.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 64. "Be Careful What You Wish For" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014
The inclusion of what made the Gifted so special was the difference between an indiscriminate weapon of mass destruction and one that could be finely honed to frightening precision.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 63. "Everybody Lies" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014
As he closed his eyes he could feel his body relax, his heartbeat slowing as sleep began to steal over him when suddenly his eyes sprang open as a piercing scream rent the air and set his heart pounding.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 62. "Two Steps Back" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 9   DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014
Carefully he made his way back to the spare room he had been given and eased himself down on the narrow bed. He still felt sore and a mite weak plus he had some serious thinking to do. And all before they reached Lilac.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 61. "One Step Forward" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014
Her smile was the permafrost before glaciers moved. A long way from the ice melt signalling the end of an Ice Age. Minions were there for a reason.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 60. "Big Damn Rescue" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014
The cloaked vessel had been unable to hide its' energy signature from his high tech craft but of all the possible destinations he had envisioned this one had not been even on the distant periphery of his imagination.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 59. "Fallout" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2014
It was almost comical except it really wasn't. The situation was obviously desperate but the fires had at last burnt themselves out leaving the desolate, charred and broken remains of what had once been the maximum security *jianyu* hidden in the last place any living mortal would look to find it.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 58. "Another Door Closes" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014
A cloth wrapped around his mouth he stumbled on doggedly and checked the bodies as he went. Five dead so far, three looking to turn critical but for now still breathing.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 57. "As One Door Opens" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2013
A slim manicured hand pointed to the two stricken ships. "The impact will set in motion a chain reaction that will destroy not only the people aboard both vessels but also everyone left on Titan Station. I call that a pyrrhic victory, don't you?"
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 56. "Tangles" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013
He leaned back in his chair and affected another smile, the kind no doubt those ancient creatures on Earth-that-was extended to their prey moments before their jaws clamped down and crushed in their skulls.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 55. "Twisted" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013
...like a fey she was already out of reach, a luminous almost ethereal body half-haunting half-taunting him through an umbical chord that could not be broken.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 54. "Cruel and Unusual" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2013
As he opened his mouth a sound like the earth splitting open filled the air. Muck, grime and heavy metal shearing and twisting under pressure was all the warning he got...
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 53. "Not Funny" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
A longer silence fell punctuated only by bouts of ragged sobbing. Leastways the actual wailing had stopped.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 52. "Enemy Hands" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Another rush of sickness swept through Mal's body and for once he was almost grateful for the manacles that kept him hanging free of his own vomit.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 51. "Cannon Fodder" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013
"Not that I don't appreciate this little heart to heart but you got me chained to a wall. What do you expect me to do about it an' why am I here anyway?"
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 50. "Dirty Little Secret" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013
Mal had an inkling something else was going on here, something he could not see. Was Badger trying to give him a clue, warn him or seal his fate forever?
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 49. "All Roads Lead to Rome" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013
In the stunned silence of their minds, no one commented or complained about the cramped conditions under the deck plates. They were hiding, safe, while those that were helping them faced an uncertain future.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 48. "A Not So Perfect Plan" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013
The others looked round to see what she was looking at and Davie gasped in fright.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 47. "A Question of Conscience" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013
Lost? Is that what she was calling being burned to bloody death? Murdered just to prove a rutting point?
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 46. "Changing The Odds" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013
Once there, he had his feet unbound and was prodded to walk under his own steam, hands still bound behind him, and that heavy gorram burlap sack scratching at his face every time he moved an inch.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 45. "Dark Forces" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013
As he turned and headed off towards the docks to find transport off world a shadow shifted in the darkness behind him.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 44. "Scum Of The 'Verse" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013
He struggled and having no way to get through them dropped suddenly into a backward roll dislodging the cloth and parting his assailants but he was not able to take them out before a needle was pushed into the side of his neck.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: The Fiery Pit by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013
Folk broke into places to steal things of value but to set people alight, to torch a place? He tip toed through the ashes and ruin of his former place of power, eyes flicking nervously right and left as if he expected one of the charred bodies to sit up and speak to him.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 42. "The Gorram Plan" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013
When Simon stared at her River continued, her voice sounding more like a school marm than his little sister. River in lecture mode was not to be messed with.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 41. "On The Road To Who Knows Where" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013
Better the slow introduction of terror. Nothing substantial enough to be pinned down but just enough to set the heart racing, the eyes constantly searching the shadows for hidden assassins.
THE DEVIL'S CRADLE: 40. "Competing Forces" by AMDOBELL
GENRE: GENERAL   RATING: 10   DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013
The others were seated facing him so only he saw what was revealed. He took a sharp intake of breath and paled slightly.

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