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A late night broadcaster perched on a high balcony in the Shadow Precinct reports the truth no one else will touch: interdimensional conspiracies, alternate Earth incursions, underwater civilizations, psychic parasites, and the strange communities forming right under our noses. Drawn from "lightly processed transcripts" of the CRANK FM radio show, these stories blend cosmic horror, deadpan humor, and metaphysical world building into a serialized chronicle of a universe coming apart at the seams.
Stories in this vlume include:
The fledgling intergalactic police agency that is definitely not space force
Kane visits to discuss the recruiting problem for interdimensional law enforcement, the broadcaster proposes distributing the upgraded optics through surplus channels to law enforcement and gun stores, and accidentally names the Human Crime Bureau.
You have been deputized
The broadcaster realizes he has been gradually recruited into Kane's operation and was figuring out the pirate universe chaos before Kane confirmed it, proposing citizen armament as the realistic solution to asymmetric interdimensional threat.
The triplet killers:
Three identical men from three different earths find each other, validate each other's violent impulses, commit monetized serial killings across multiple earths, and escape with their earnings while authorities label them delusional triplets.
Military Warrior Dogs
: Interdimensional dog breeders bring warrior breed animals across the membrane and sell them to military, law enforcement, and cartels, with civic-minded buyers using them to clean up neighborhoods through targeted predation.
Space Hookers
: Succubus sex workers from a pagan earth where Abrahamic religion never took hold operate an MLM model of peak sexual experiences for wealthy clients until police with Kane's optics encounter the demonic entities during an orgy and a firefight disperses the operation.
Shooting demons in the shadows
: The gun range visit detects something in a fellow shooter through the optic, who pursues him to the parking lot with a rifle, is killed by energy rounds that appear to destroy a possessing entity, and the self-defense ruling holds on camera evidence.
Ralph the half breed roadside psychic
: A roadside psychic with one glowing green eye reveals himself as a 200-year-old tripartite being with an angelic father, offers to guide the broadcaster to real threats versus those requiring compassion, and they exchange numbers.
My neighbor the druid priestess:
The broadcaster witnesses a pre-dawn Druidic tree ritual with sexual components in the courtyard, then meets the 83-year-old neighbor who participated and learns she has been maintaining her vitality through the practice for years.
Barbarians invented asymmetrical warfare
: Two hundred men armed with bladed weapons cross from a pre-industrial earth, attack residents and police through the city, resist conventional crowd control through military discipline, and are ultimately eliminated after being declared a gang rather than an interdimensional incursion.
Bounty hunting for fun and profit
Three telegenic bounty hunters use social media to crowdsource the location of four interdimensional fugitives, execute them live on stream with shrunken head trophies, and are revealed to be a private vendetta operation for a wealthy client with a grievance.
