Excerpts
Staff Sergeant Ulyssa van Kann of the United States Army, 23rd Paranatural Operations Group, watches the four men through her scope for a full minute before deciding to end their lives.
"Forecasting suggests that they will depart the country within seventy-two hours, with the majority of the paraweaponry, which will be sold to Samothracian militants who will use it to attack Athens."
"But djinn don't get to make their own wishes, do they?"
"No. Nor do gorgons, apparently."
Your love is like a tidal wave, spinning over my head
Drownin' me in your promises, better left unsaid
You're the right kind of sinner to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner and you know that you were born to be
You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me
You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around, no, no, noPat Benatar — "Heartbreaker"
The 99th Third Law article is here, and what better way to mark that achievement than with a completely standalone tale about lesbians killing people with magic and lasers.
A lesbian love/war story about a Pentagram half-gorgon and an ORIA djinn fighting together to recover a cache of Soviet paraweapons from the former KGB in the middle of the War in Afghanistan.
Starring Ulyssa van Kann, the half-gorgon warden of Paramax and my new favorite character, during her time in Afghanistan, before she becomes a heartless cyborg. Well, before she becomes a cyborg, anyways.
Thanks to the following people for crit:
