Fifteen may sixteen years old
Barracuda jackets collars turned-up
Wearing kahki’s and desert boots
Drinking cheap beer from
brown quart bottles
quickly smashing the bottles
on rocks under the Stone Bridge
Reckless the buzz strong
The street lights very bright
We pair up thumbs out
Waiting for an expensive car
Where are you going boys
Bingo we caught one
In the shadows of a parking lot
Behind a closed factory
And no one is around to hear or see
Watching waiting for the move
The front seat distracts while
The back swings a rubber hammer
Roll the body out
Get the wallet get the cash
Toss the keys and a kick for good luck
Back to our streets
Back to homes and mothers
Our victories secret forever and ever.
The world is young, dark, and rough. But the bright light of civilization illuminates the highly advanced Island Nation of Athlan, a country of order, balance, and progress.
However, the world is changing, and what is solid becomes fractured. Amidst this epic era of devolution, the never-ending cosmic battle for control of earth has centered on Athlan. While celestial forces gather, wielding power unimagined, the Marfach Gardai, human defenders of Athlan, ready themselves for the final conflict with the lethal, mindless Armies of the Night. Athlanians, great and small, men and women, will die in bloody droves, incapable of understanding or escaping their fate as Great Athlan destroys itself. Witnessing the battle for her planet, Mother Earth joins the fray with a small but extremely potent cadre of once-women who defend the earth with their lives. In the end, everyone will become a pawn on the empyrean board of life and death, and the game is in doubt . . .
