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Awareness 8 – Coconut

May 27, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

Across the road a wiry group of youths sculpted by scanty food and occasional manual labour lounge against the frontage. All wear eye-sets – chitinous, intimidations reeking of testosterone.

Awareness 7 – Mandla Alone

May 20, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

Delicately it probes one of the open access fields, bouncing a disguised connection request. Immediately there is a rustle of activity: stealthy digital legs stalking – A spidernetic mutabot or some other insectificial tasked with embalming unwary code for the attention of its hacker master.

Awareness 6 – Into the Township

May 13, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

The murder rate is well above the national mean – 0.015% per annum. That’s nearly six people every week. 85% of them are young black men. But, though proportionately fewer, some of the murders perpetrated on women are particularly horrific.

Awareness 5 – Thuli’s Doubts

May 6, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

“Oh…My…Gosh! I’ve discovered a first: cybernetic post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Awareness 4 – A Safe Host

April 29, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

“It’s a savage cyber-slum out there. Down at street level, so to speak.”

Awareness 3 – My Cybernan

April 22, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

“It’s illegal to remove ID, but it’s not illegal to go un-wearing after twenty-one.”

Awareness 2 At the Hospital

April 15, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

Thuli begins to sob, even more intensely than before. What on earth is happening to me? she wonders.

Awareness 1 – The Accident

April 8, 2021April 4, 2021 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

Glimpsed in the headlights, a child darts for the edge of the road. Thuli brakes, and the car slews – she hears a soft thump – and begins to spin. Helpless, she resigns herself: a limbo of thought in which she avoids imagining the bone-rending impact to come.

Will & Jordan: Cyberhunt

December 16, 2020December 22, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

The AI ceiling: any software that exceeded parameters for independence and self-awareness found running free on the net was culled by Initializers.

Will & Jordan: Cyberhunt

December 9, 2020December 22, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

“And that’s going to turn it into an AI?” gawped Jordan.

“Nooo. Twit! I already said not. Mostly they just freeze and die. Junk code’s all that’s left. But sometimes…” Sean tilted his head for emphasis. “Sometimes, they come out drooling idiots, like. When that happens it’s a laugh.”

Will & Jordan: Cyberhunt

December 2, 2020December 22, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

Simone wore fairy wings. Butterflies haloed her, flitting in and out of sight at the boundary of the v-effect. And her hair was an ash-blond bob that seamlessly flowed into a sparkling shower of jeweled rain that vanished as it hit the sun-parched pavement.

Syblings: Episode 14

November 12, 2020November 11, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

The shadow approaches her window. Dun jacket flapping, stick-thin, intimidatingly insectile AR glasses hiding his face, only stubble and crooked teeth showing. A ghostly praying-mantis. He taps at the glass, and she rolls it down a crack.

Syblings: Episode 8

October 1, 2020November 1, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

While Darren jumped the gate into the Arderne Gardens – unexpectedly meeting Arno there, Leandré had been entrancing the crowd at The Compass with a performance inspired by Poliamuel, her angel.

Syblings: Episode 7

September 24, 2020November 1, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

While Leandré has been busy at the The Compass, entrancing the crowd with a performance inspired by Poliamuel, her angel, Darren had been out walking.

Syblings: Episode 4

September 3, 2020November 1, 2020 / Syblings serial / Leave a comment

Darren had taken over, had sidelined Marcus (du-rag) with an accidental-on-purpose blow to the head, and has performed an amazing solo. The crowd loved it, but now they’re not sure what he wants them to do.

Syblings: Episode 2

August 21, 2020November 1, 2020 / Syblings serial / 1 Comment

Rapper, du-rag had been making eyes at Leandré, Darren’s sister. While most of the crowd were virtual, those three, along with Leandré’s friends and Pastor Arendse were there for real. Pastor was talking with a banana...

Announcing…

Syblings the Syrial, Season One – Episodes 1-22 is available in ebook ($0.99) and audiobook ($2.95) at some of your favourite stores (see retailer links). 

It’s the near-future: angelic and demonic forces are trying to influence the destiny of siblings Darren and Leandré. But Darren and Leandré are not controllable. Not easily – they are individualistic, unruly, passionate, each in their own way. Different and real.

Will & Jordan: Cyberhunt – The Will to Live. Ebook ($1.49) and audiobook ($2.95) at some of your favourite stores. 

Jordan is a loser. Until his computer is infected by Will, a rogue artificial intelligence. After that, things start to change. But will Jordan be able to save his new digital friend from being destroyed by the Initializers that patrol the internet?

 

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