July 2011: Part 3 of ORIGINS OF SYMMETRY is still in progress, and FAUST rewrites have begun! Thanks again for being so wonderfully patient.

New Stories: FAUST redux and Just Ourselves (and Immortality)

Faust redux:

Wednesday had begun innocently enough, which was why Bakura Ryou found it somewhat surprising that a mere twenty-four hours later he had died and gone to hell.

Origins of Symmetry:

Bakura is a faceless specter to most, but for the past three years he has been a suspect behind every attack and assassination across the Alliance. YG0 in its quiet pocket of space is in little danger, but elsewhere across the universe the heads of state tremble and double their guard. During a six-month lull it was thought he had been killed, but last January the attacks resumed, growing in frequency—always singular assassinations, always at the edge of Allied territory, always creeping inward.

Bakura's motives are totally unknown. The analysts have made him out to be a Marxist, a socialist, an anarchist, a fascist, a fundamentalist, a separatist, a communist, a terrorist, a torusist, a pirate, an anti-colonist—at the very least, a madman.

"I think I've met him, actually," Ryou says.