JAy-AR

Use the golden watch

by JAy-AR

Chapter 6 in How About Us

Silent and quiet

by JAy-AR

Chapter 5 in How About Us

You flick the selector to safe, let the AK hang and draw your knife. The guard on the truck hood never wakes up. You sneak closer and plunge you knife into his neck. He spasm for a short time and you hold him till he becomes dead weight. You slowly ease the body to the ground....

Armed to the teeth

by JAy-AR

Chapter 4 in How About Us

You crouch beside the bodies. The first kid with two full AK magazines and one half empty. The second kid with one full AK magazine, three Tokarev magazines and three F1 grenades still pinned together with tape. You take it all. Four AK magazines slide into your empty pockets....

Use the golden watch

by JAy-AR

Chapter 6 in How About Us

Convince them to desert

by JAy-AR

Chapter 4 in How About Us

You look at them for a long second and then speak low and flat. “Listen close. You’ve got one chance to stop being part of this tonight.” The tall one’s mouth opens, but nothing comes out. “You want to live with what they’re doing?” You want to wake up tomorrow still wearing t...

Leave her be

by JAy-AR

Chapter 5 in How About Us

The girl is still shaking, arms wrapped around herself and eyes fixed on you like you’re the only solid thing left in the room. You don’t look at her again. You have to move fast before someone comes running in here. The first body with AK, two magazines, pistol and g...

Talk to the kids

by JAy-AR

Chapter 3 in How About Us

You step out of the shadows slowly, hands visible, rifle still wrapped. “Easy,” you mutter. “Same side.” The taller kid sixteen, maybe seventeen jerks his cigarette up like a weapon before he sees your patch. The shorter one just stares with huge eyes under a helmet two sizes t...

Join them

by JAy-AR

Chapter 3 in How About Us

You swallow the last of the liquor, wipe your mouth and step toward the cracked door. The girl’s eyes lock on you again, pleading. You your face into something hard and hungry. The same look you’ve seen on every other soldier tonight. You shove the door open with your shou...

Giver her one of your AK

by JAy-AR

Chapter 6 in How About Us

You stop under the awning of a burned pharmacy, pull one of the AK's off your back, and shove it into her hands. “Hold this.” She almost drops it, must be because the rifle is longer than her arm. “Do you know how to use one?” She shakes her head, eyes wide. You sigh, take i...

Bring her along

by JAy-AR

Chapter 5 in How About Us

You kick the dying man with your boot. He gurgles once and tries to grab your ankle then goes still, eyes fixed on the ceiling. You don’t waste a second thought on him. “Get up,” you tell the girl. “We’re leaving.” She nods fast while clutching her torn blouse together. You poi...

Go in loud and deadly

by JAy-AR

Chapter 5 in How About Us

You sling the AK47 off your shoulder and pull the bolt back just enough to see brass in the chamber. Thirty rounds in the curved magazine and one already chambered. The pistol on your belt with eight in the mag and one in the pipe. Thirty-nine bullets total. Plenty you tell yours...

Let's prioritize speed and quiet

by JAy-AR

Chapter 4 in How About Us

You leave the rifles, the grenades, the belts. Too heavy, too loud. You wipe your hands on your trouser and walk back to where you leave your AK47, after that you return your blooded knife back in your boot. Your pistol still holstered and unused. The kills were silent. The night...

Where's the third soldier

by JAy-AR

Chapter 4 in How About Us

The third soldier had stayed back, one arm clamped around the girl's waist, his other hand over her mouth to muffle her screams that's why he couldn't jump in sooner. But now with his buddies down he shoves her aside and barrels at you like a bull. You raise the pistol, but becau...

Help Her

by JAy-AR

Chapter 3 in How About Us

You grip the rusted knife tighter, the edge still sharp enough for what comes next. Putting down your rifle behind the door. Using a gun would invite more trouble than it's worth. No more waiting. You shove the door open with your shoulder bursting into the room. The three soldie...

Eliminate Them

by JAy-AR

Chapter 3 in How About Us

You freeze in the shadows, heart slamming against your ribs. The two teenagers lean against the bus, cigarettes glowing in the dark. One laughs, a high-pitched bark that cuts through the distant gunfire. The other flicks ash onto the ground, rifle propped lazily beside him. They'...

Plunder

by JAy-AR

Chapter 2 in How About Us

You push through the broken gates of what clearly is a gated community for the people of affluence. The rich and famous clearly used to live in this place. But now the air thick with smoke and the stink of blood. Your boots crunch over shattered stones and fallen bodies. The civi...

Hunt

by JAy-AR

Chapter 2 in How About Us

Night, the city burns. You walk alone down the main avenue. Bodies lie where they fell hours ago. Some still twitch. Most don’t. The New Republic soldiers have already moved deeper, kicking doors, dragging people out. Their shouts echo between the broken buildings. You keep to t...

Introduction

by JAy-AR

Chapter 1 in How About Us

You can hear it, it's very loud. The cries of agony as the New Republic Army hack through the people living in this city. Months have this city been sieged. All of the pent up frustration of the soldiers have finally been released. And you, as ashamed as you might be are part...

With Sex

by JAy-AR

Chapter 39 in The Royal Succession

"Very well, I accept," "In that case, Your Majesty, would you prefer simply sate your lust using my body or would you prefer we balance our energy together?" "There's a difference?" "There is." You have to control your facial expression from frowning. What...