Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2018
Hunter and Bain watch the evening draw in across the wide river, the pinks and purples of the dying light dragging their heels across the valleys before disappearing slowly towards the distant mountains. Coffee is brought to the little wooden table, under the awning where the two companions settle after an exhausting trip. Idly they watch a venerable old lady, …
Hunter and Bain huddle in a corner bay at the front of the cafe, sheltering from the dark downpour of seasonal rain. In the street outside a couple shuffle past, with the man holding an umbrella over his own head, his female companion, drenched and uncomplaining shakes her hair of water and notices a pile of melting clothes on the …
Hunter and Bain nod to the android waiter who delivers their coffee, and receive the usual tepid response. They sit on the fringes of a market square, with the sunlight casting shadows through the trees, watching the patterns of age on the ancient stone ground. The population of old Jerez slinks past, either trying to avoid the direct heat of …
Hunter and Bain sit with their eyes half closed. The coffee in front of them is untouched, but the aroma teases at the early morning silence of a cafe in the 798 district of Beijing on old Earth. They have just returned from a distant asteroid and now wrestle with exhaustion. Bain fiddles abstractedly with his titanium arm, half watching …