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I'll admit that I'm old compared to many of the Gen Zers that aren't my oldest. In the eyes of the young, even my "quarter of a century" year old is actually old in their eyes. I won't debate that. No need. They have their generation and I have mine.

But mine? Mine was one that connected analog with DNS and now fiber. Mine was about a Radio Shack TRS-80 that I could program to smile back at me using DOS. I learned how to type on an Apple in one classroom and how to save a file on a floppy disk...

Men are liars, Aya. Every last stinking one of them!

Those words from my older sister Shub rang through my mind, and I should have listened. The sea broke around me as I swam to the surface for the first time in my life.

All Lemurians could swim topside when they turned 15 years of age, but I never bothered. I had no interest in human men. If they were liars, they were useless to me. But staying in the ocean my entire life felt constricting. There were only so many conch shells I could find at...

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I’d been cleaning toilets and scrubbing floors ever since the day my world collapsed. It was all thanks to that stupid Civil Were War and pack politics.

Because of all that, no one in the Rose Moon Pack spoke to me. And that was perfectly fine. As far as I was concerned, the only person I could trust was myself.

My parents died during the war. Lenox and his rogue pack killed my father, the Alpha of the Blood Moon. My...