Kespan

They called it The Game. Every month a new round began, drawing thousands of competitors. Most were …

I took a deep breath and knocked on the door. A petite woman in her mid-30s answered. When she saw m…

Bevin hurried down the corridor, barely glancing at a group of noncoms in his haste. Five

minutes l…

Instructor Bevin waited until David’s thrashing subsided and the man fell still. He turned to the re…

David glanced down at his bare feet as the blue liquid flooded the tank he stood in. It had the cons…

I crouched behind a fallen pine, breathing in the soft smells of moss and damp wood, watching the fa…

A million people surrounded me on the First Day, faces lit with terror, their eyes burning with the …

A lone bead of sweat wound its way down the side of Jon’s cheek, but that was the only sign of disco…

I was alone and confused, my mind and body numb, suspended in darkness. Memories were fragile and te…

Inhale. Exhale slowly. His finger rested gently on the trigger of his Barrett as the crosshairs sett…

Awake for an hour, asleep for a year. That was the summation of his entire existence, ever since he …

The three men approached the gnarled tree hesitantly, wary of the body that hung from its twisted li…

I laugh in their faces as they flip the switch once more, their faces becoming even more desperate a…

Ryan and I cruised down the interstate at 2AM, laughing and talking about inconsequential things, ra…

His heart tapped a slow rhythm in his chest. The blackness behind his closed eyes seemed infinitely …