The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2023 short story competition was as follows: *** Arrivals & Departures I’ve never liked airports. It’s mainly because I’m always saying goodbye to someone in them, whether it’s my cousins as their holiday and the fun we’ve had together has ended, my husband when he’s gone on business trips and left
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). This finale did most of its job and this season was another one that ended on a cliffhanger. The episode kicks off with the lawsuit underway, with Lucy on the stand and Holden
Read moreThis episode is all about Nathan’s last day on Earth…again. Nathan and Nora decide to spend a fun last day on Earth together, whilst Ingrid and Backup Nathan admit to each other that they almost kissed their respective counterparts. In her anger at Backup Nathan almost kissing Nora, she goes into the suite bathroom and asks Tinsley to let her
Read moreThe episode kicks off with Real Nathan bidding farewell to Backup Nathan and Luke, only for Viv to call and show him that Ivan sent Choak’s hard drive to her. Nathan calls Nora for help, but she doesn’t answer. It’s then revealed that Horizen put Nora in a Lakeview showroom and have her drugged to believe that she is in
Read moreThe episode kicks off with Luke taking the AI Guy into the Grey Zone for reward money from a gangster, Zalan, the reveal that Nora officially works at Holden’s firm, and Holden’s dog getting into the pills the download doctor gave Nathan. Moments after Nathan finds out Holden’s dog got into his pills, Luke calls asking for help as he
Read moreNow that we’re at the halfway point of the season, it’s time for the season to head in a different direction. The episode picks up from where we were left off where Nora panics at the sight of Nathan’s nosebleed. Nora and Nathan decide to go and see the doctor who invented download to figure out what to do. Nathan
Read moreThis episode is all about secrets coming out. The episode kicks off with Nathan having another nose bleed as he realises that Jamie has died. Nathan and Nora then make their way to the Charlie Munger Reduced Circumstance Housing (homeless shelter) to find a bed for the night, where he finds Viv staying there (and Mauricio is with her). Back
Read moreNow that the premiere has come and gone, the season can really get underway. The episode kicks off with a teenage boy watching a news cast revealing that Freeyond has shut its doors permanently (effectively ending Nathan and Nora’s mission to take them down), and trying to find information about Ludds online. We then hear Nathan and Nora approach the
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs and subplots for the season, as well as expand on story arcs and subplots set up in the previous season’s finale. This premiere did its job perfectly. The end of the second season left us with Nathan being downloaded and seemingly starting to die, Nathan and Nora finally
Read moreIn earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth Conqueror Virtual Challenges: the English Channel, the Inca Trail, Mount Fuji, Angkor Wat, Marathon to Athens, the Berlin Wall, the Amalfi Coast , and Easter Island respectively. I have since completed my
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