Writer for Hire

Sometimes the pen is the sword

Photo by Ignacio Ceballos on Unsplash

I was sipping an espresso and intermittently tapping out my novel, when a large man sat next to me at the long, wooden communal table and said, “The Rays are coming to kill you, Lucas.”

He didn’t have a laptop, which was virtually a required accessory for entering Nimbus Coffee. He did, however, sport a bulge under his ill-fitting blue jacket, which showed…