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   Some say that T-day was the ultimate goodbye. But how do you say goodbye to a world that you never knew? T-day was never goodbye. Goodbye is too simple an idea. T-day was a lifetime of beginnings and ends packed into the blink of an eye. Most minds went away after that.           Afternoon in Shanghai.     Evening in a corporate office in San Francisco.     The moniker man that called himself Hashtag had been unavailable for response when the call had gone out. Not all of the Moniker Men could respond when needed. The concept of a desk job was wholly beyond Gatekeeper. He threw himself completely into this work, liking nothing more tha...

     They say it came out of nowhere: complete, unprecedented destruction. They say a lot of things about T-Day. They can’t all be true…can they?     The day began with destruction. Most days with Gatekeeper did. Most people said that he couldn’t exist without destruction. White Knight knew better. But White Knight was not most people. He was the sidekick to the greatest superhero in the world: Gatekeeper, the battering man, Atlas, the disaster umbrella. When God wanted to act, he knocked on the door of the Gatekeeper to make sure that it was okay.     For mere mortals, the sound of a sonic boom was enough. He didn’t actually have to drop ...

The Sex Symbol :Gwendolyn Sanguino was finally going somewhere in the world of television and all it took was the death of every man in America. Before the end of the world, she was one of four co-hosts for a morning talk show. Her winning smile and her quick-to-laugh personality quickly made her popular in the morning crowd. Her hourglass figure and long legs made her popular with everyone else. She had long gorgeous dark chocolate hair that curled naturally and hung past her shoulders. Many said that her time was being wasted on the television crowd, this bombshell was destined for stardom. She could sing, dance, paint, and entertain wit...

The Spy :Mrs. Martha Pine’s real name was Mrs. Olga Vasyutin. She was a member of the Homeowner’s Association, secretary of the California American Wives Against Communism, and the new wife of an extremely wealthy and prominent American scientist named Dr. Richard Pine. She was also an intelligence officer in the employ of the Soviet Union. At the height of the Korean war, Dr. Adam Frieg informed his supervisors in the CIA that Project Clean Slate was a great success. At site 14 in the Nevada desert, Frieg and his team had finally unlocked the genetic cocktail to boost the physical and mental prowess of the common soldier. The test subject...

The Soldier :Mrs. Betsy Anne Baker had been a soldier in WW2. She had served with distinction as a nurse in the US army, and spent time as a POW when her destroyer went down in the Pacific Theater. She met her husband in that POW camp. Now, eight years later, thanks to her two children ages eight and six, she was declined when she volunteered for the Korean Conflict. No mother of children under eighteen years of age were allowed to enlist. She had many colorful words for the men down at the recruitment office, none of which were ladylike. She left the recruiters stunned and embarrassed. The young men at hanging around at the office for the...

The Survivor :   First off: curlers.Her hair has to be done before her makeup. She remembers it from her sweet sixteen, when her mother taught her the art of being a woman. It was delicate and it needed to be observed diligently. Fix up your hair and then it’s out of the way to put the rest of yourself together. The rest of the checklist falls into place beneath it. First things first, chestnut brown locks up in curls.Sunscreen. Hello California , she thinks. It also keeps the blood from staining her skin. Moisturizer. Eyeliner. Eye primer then eyeshadow. Curl lashes, then carefully apply mascara.Rest of face: concealer, foundation, bronze...