You are making your way through enemy-occupied territory in the same squad as Death itself… Can you picture that? Good, then let's go on: suppose you were born in a country where everyone lives by criminal law and after school everyone is sent to prison without exception — how would you like that? And what does a man feel when he must cross lands roaming with hordes of zombies, and not cross alone, but escort a fragile, helpless girl? And what is it like to be part of an elite military unit where everyone knows what the others think and feel? Or to find yourself in the position of a participant in a brutal game where the winner receives an extra three hundred years of life, and the loser loses that very life?
But no matter what world we find ourselves in while reading this book, they are all united by one thing: the heroes must make the right choice. This book is about how, in critical, sometimes terrifying, sometimes hopeless conditions, people manage to remain human and find a way out of the most hopeless situations. Whatever it may cost them.
When the world hangs by a thread, everything depends on us, and if not us, then who?
Contents:
Death for Six
A Candle Was Burning
Peacemaker .45
There, in the Southeast
Every Civilized Person
Born to Sit
The Fool
Under the Ground and Above It
The Tramp's Way
The Intuitive
April Fools' Joke
Devil's Puppets
One Six-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seventh of a Percent
Guardian Angel
Human-Deafmutish
Once in Be'er Sheva
Obsolete Model, One Piece
The Last Vampire
Talking About Nothing
Round Count
Rhombus
The Tightrope Walker