Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 672: The Emancipation of Andre Kruus

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It took five years of rehabilitation for Omorose Merek-Balsara to trust Andre enough to consider him fit to be released into the custody of his resurrected parents. After meeting up with the Guild Master’s General and another emancipated Haernyara, Omorose and her ward join them as they walk towards a war museum, doubling as a refugee naturalisation centre, on Terminal Island, Long Beach. (Fight fascism)

Andre Kruus, Terminal Island, Civil Earth, (1277 FD)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 667: Kat and Ali Part 4

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After explaining that she couldn’t return to Civil Earth with Kat, due to further obligations to the Guild of Time, Kat and Alexand attempt to steal a few more hours together, whilst Alexand waits for whoever it is that is ‘late’. (This issue is dedicated to everyone in the LGBTQAI+ community, particularly in the USA at this moment.)

Kat De Somme, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 666: Making Monsters

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After escaping from Floating Asylum Ship One, before its capture, Helga Ritter is deeply upset about the loss of her life’s work. As compensation, and under instruction from Lord Anderson, Helga delights in the transmutation of the remaining haernyara into Haernyarn, vampire-like creatures, loyal to Amanojuko masters. Retreating to one of the haernyara strongholds in Murmansk, she attempts to recover from her defeat.

Helga Ritter, Russia (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 665: The Omnipresent Guild Masters of Time

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Guild Master Anum Anzeti, along with Guild Masters Heyem Merek, Octavia Vijay and the rest of the Guild, watch as the captured Floating Asylum ship is transported to a holding cell on the outskirts of the Hungarian Kinjoutouchi, a heavily guarded Kyo-ashita city on Martial Earth. Octavia Vijay seethes, as Heyem Merek indulges in her victory.

Octavia Vijay, Hungary, Martial Earth (1277 FD)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 664: Kat and Ali Part 3

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Five hours have passed, and the last of the asylum victims have been taken to the Cloning hospital on Civil earth, to be assessed and given citizen status on the new world. Future Alexand watches with Katherine as Floating Asylum ship One is dematerialised to a quarantine area on Martial earth, where the Guild Masters, and her twin sister, Heyem will no doubt perform a full autopsy on it and on the experiments in Helga Ritter’s laboratory. (Happy New Year!)

Future Alexand, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 660: Beyond the Floating Asylum

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After taking a very long shower, Katherine departed with Captain Samira Ganesh, along with her colleagues, Jay Varma and Ajeeta Kothari and a medical team from the cloning hospital on Civil Earth. Samira took them to the aftermath of the battle, to where a captured enemy ship was docked in the harbour, and thousands of prisoners were being lead to freedom by the Kyo-ashita army.

Future Katherine, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 658: The Falling Asylum Part 5

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The prisoners inside the asylum cages, some too weak to stand, others beaten and broken into shells of themselves, can hear whispers that something has changed inside the cells, can hear singing, and rattling of bars, hollers of ‘let us out!’ The cries of freedom, get louder and drown out the darkened despair of lives lost to brutality, to Lord Anderson’s war.

Future Alexand Merek, onboard Floating Asylum Ship One, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 656: The Falling Asylum Part 3

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Helga Ritter was not on the lower deck when Alexand chased her footsteps. But Alexand knew Helga would escape, because the Amanojuko Lady had always escaped, and would forever in an endless cycle escape from this ship, on this day. She could not change this, no matter how much she wanted to.(Unbound Boxes Limping Gods is back after a break. Thank you to everyone for your support. The writer gives life to a story, the reader keeps it alive.)

Alexand’s story, set onboard the Floating Asylum (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 655: The Battleground Part 3

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Lord Ichitumbu Jalhavi fought his way onto the highest deck of the ship, to where he can see only a few haernyara left in the sky around the vessel. He attempts to use his anti-gravity device to join them but right beside him, fighting what is left of the mutated haernyarn, is a very angry looking blond man, who seems to recognise him, despite Ichitumbu having no idea who he is. (Unbound Boxes will return on Wednesday 6th November 2024)

Ichitumbu Jalhavi, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 654: True Monsters Part 2

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After watching President Allerton distributing a Bad Thing Box to those amongst the Knights of Amanojuko who had not yet launched this experiment onto their populations, Lord Anderson materialised into the conference, joined his knights to a roar of praise. It was his intention to share his blood with them, and make them Amanojuko, as a reward for unleashing the Bad Thing Boxes on their countries.

Filius Anderson, set in Russia (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 653: Shadows Part 5

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The Guild Masters General has been working on Project Petra for ten minutes, not enough time to show Petra Teslov a familiar set of prefabricated buildings, in the Academic District of Moscow where her mother lives. They had materialised in Vorontsovskiy Park, Gen disguised in a black wig under a Russian Ushanka hat, his dark sight enablers replaced by low profile clear glass. Petra’s hands had been tied, and he had covered them with a shawl. A scarf wrapped around the lower part of her face to conceal her tattoos.

The Guild Master’s General, Moscow, Russia, (3955)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 649: Shadows Part 3

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From inside her bubble shield, Heyem looks on as more tattooed warriors are taken by Kyo-ashita, disappearing all around her, to appear moments later, some surrendering, some collapsing, others turning on the enemy, reinforcing the Kyo-ashita army, fighting the more brutal looking haernyara, those who can’t be saved.

Heyem Merek, onboard Floating Asylum Ship One, Mexico, (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 643: Shadows

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The Guild Master’s General has spent the past few weeks learning about the life of one Haernyara. A woman, in her mid-forties, Petra Teslov, who grew up in the same neighbourhood as Inajda Rekaya and Anya Ranyevzsky. As he searches for her amongst the other flickers in the sky, his thoughts waver to his own incarceration. How can he give this woman salvation when he himself is not free?

The Guild Master’s General, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 637: The Right Asenath

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After being invited (obligated) to attend an ancient but important battle, by her Guild Master, (Heyem Merek,) Future Asenath Bomani, President of the Kyo-ashita army, who resides on the second cloned earth, Martial Earth (in the year, 1277 FD) arrives just in time to witness her great great granddaughter, Hope and the broody Guild Master’s General, take control of the Floating Asylum Bridge.

Asenath Bomani, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 626: Laboratory

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After being apprehended by Haernyarn, clad in death proof armour, Xan, Xan and Xan are frog marched, at the command of Helga Ritter, into a gruesome laboratory, filled with horrors. Helga Ritter is unaware of the chromosome switch, and that she has captured three versions of the same person.

Xan’s back story, set onboard Floating Asylum Ship One, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 620: Angels from the Future Part 22

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Future Alexand finally agreed to go with her grandmother, Edith, to the place where a fierce battle would determine their existence. Heyem materialises along with Alex and Edith, onto a mountain. It’s windy and overlooks the sea. Two women, one unconscious, the other missing an eye, lay on the grass. The one-eyed woman is talking to someone over a writer.

Heyem’s back story, set in Mexico, (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 619: Helga Ritter Part 5

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Retreating from the top deck, Helga Ritter rushes towards her laboratory, to secure the DNA samples of the cloned Merek twins. Her entire project has been compromised by the arrival of aggressive biological weapons, bearing resemblance to the original weapon, Xan Medani. (Unbound Boxes will return on Wednesday 6th December, as the writer has broken. Please catch up on back stories here. Thank you for your support.)

Helga Ritter’s back story, set onboard Floating Asylum Ship One, Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 617: Aïcha Merek De Somme Part 2

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After Eldenath had walked her to her mother’s cottage in their grounds, and said good night, Aïcha still felt useless, and decided to head towards the walk-in wig wardrobe, which contained all her mother’s wigs, given by her fans, after she lost her hair. Kat didn’t want it in the main house, as it contained hundreds of wigs and took up a lot of space. But Aïcha, had a gift, and that was to style her mother’s wigs for her forthcoming world tour.

Aïcha’s back story, set in LA, Civil Earth (1277 FD)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 616: A Crack in Time Part 2

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After cutting communication with a future version of Xan, Edith slept on Future Heyem’s sofa, as she was also feeling too tired to take part in battle. The sound of an owl wakes her from her sleep, and after washing and dressing, despite the fact it is now night-time in Cairo, Edith prepared herself and her granddaughters a cooked breakfast of baked flatbread, soybean milk and deep-fried dough sticks.

Edith’s back story, set in Egypt, Civil Earth (1277 FD)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 613: Damenklub Violetta

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After allowing Heyem to apply her makeup and disguise her alopecia, Alexand took her past sister to Berlin 1926, in the height of the Weimar Republic, to one of her and Katherine’s favourite drag clubs, Damenklub Violetta, led by their dear friend, Lotte Hahm. (If you enjoy these stories, please consider donating to the Drag Defense Fund, a charity supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, fighting the current backlash against LGBTQ+ artists and people, who simply want to live their lives with the same rights as everybody else in this world.) Take me with you, Alexand, for I am dying here.

Heyem’s back story, set in Berlin, Germany (1926)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 608: The Right Eldenath

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On her way back to her grandmother’s house, after walking her aunt Aïcha to the cottage, Eldenath heard footsteps approaching from behind. (Happy almost Birthday, Mum. You are one of the kindest, funniest and sweetest people on this earth. Thank you for all that you are and all that you do. Come on Barbie, let’s go party.)

Eldenath’s back story, set in LA, on Civil Earth (1277 FD)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 606: A Message of Monsters

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Helga Ritter retreated from Gianti Dincrind’s laboratory, furiously intent on combatting the Amanojuko enemy. Unable to control this trigger, she feels sudden rage, something an Amanojuko Lady rarely experiences. She knows exactly how to cauterise this pain. (For new readers, please note, Helga Ritter’s views do not reflect my own. When fighting monsters, it is essential to understand the mind of our enemy in any world, reality, or fiction. LGBTQI+ and disability rights are human rights and a high proportion of the protagonists in Unbound Boxes belong to or are allies of these communities.) Featured song is “The Lavender Song,” (Das Lila Lied) written by Mischa Spoliansky and Kurt Schwabach in 1920.

Helga’s back story, set onboard Floating Asylum Ship 1, off the coast of Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 605: Thirteenth Anniversary Special Part 3: Iosif Merek

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Iosif, had delivered six letters, and persuaded four of the invitees to meet with the Guild Master’s General in the old werewolf enclosure. Iosif’s older sister, Iyzebel, (born on Civil Earth in peacetime, the fourth eldest Merek, after Farokh,) together with his younger sister, Yelena Merek, (Inajda and Eric’s youngest daughter) Ayo Apfvarzian, (eldest son of Juba and Lucy Apfvarzian) and Omorose Merek-Balsara, (Heyem Merek and Yemi Balsara’s daughter) Iosif and the others, watch as the Guild Master’s General eats up the meal Hope had laid out for him on a picnic rug.

Iosif’s back story, set in Professor Sumian’s Fourth Dimensional Training Grounds,(4487)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 604: Thirteenth Anniversary Special Part 2: The Guild Master’s General Part 16

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After leaving Guild Master Merek’s official summons with General Merek De Somme, the Guild Master’s General watched Hope and Iosif from the shadow of the forest.

The Guild Master’s General’s back story, set in Professor Sumian’s Fourth Dimensional Training Grounds, in a far future bubble world, (4487)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 603: Thirteenth Anniversary Special Part 1: Hope

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Professor Sumian’s Fourth Dimensional Training Grounds, in a far future bubble world, (4487) General Hope Merek De Somme, along with her uncle, Iosif Merek, has broken free of her duties for a while, to steal a sliver of joy. She has rigged a zip-wire up inside the old werewolf enclosure and is intent on spending the afternoon pretending to fly.

Hope’s back story set on, Professor Sumian’s Fourth Dimensional Training Grounds, (4487)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 600: The Biological Weapon Part 3

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After escaping from the drunken debauchery in his grandmother’s wine cellar, Zero, teleported to the theatre, where rehearsals are taking place for his live performance tomorrow evening. (If you enjoy these stories, please consider donating to the Drag Defence Fund, a charity supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, fighting the current backlash against LGBTQ+ artists and people, who simply want to live their lives with the same rights as everybody else in this world.)

Zero’s back story, set on Civil Earth, Los Angeles (1277 FD)

 

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 599: The Haernyarn

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Gianti Dincrind has co developed a more resistant strain of the haernyarn virus, to administer into subjects onboard Asylum Ship One. She has been ordered to test these newly turned haernyarn on the biological weapons technology inside the cloned bodies of the Merek twins. (The Coast of Laguna, Mexico, 3992)

Gianti Dincrind’s back story, set onboard the Floating Asylum, The Gulf of Mexico (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 594: The Guild Master’s Genie

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After receiving her second consecutive orders from Guild Master Merek, a furious future Alexand transported herself from the sanctuary of her bedroom in Los Angeles, to her sister Heyem’s apartment in Cairo, ready to fight with Heyem about the relentlessness and frequency of her missions.

Future Alexand’s back story, set in Egypt, Civil Earth (1277 FD)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 586: The Prison of Souls Part 7

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After spending hours inside an isolation cell with Jarad, Alexand was relieved when her mother Inajda finally joined them in the cell. Unfortunately, Alexand learnt very quickly that Inajda was not there for her own protection but was being held as a prisoner due to her association with Anya Ranyevzsky, the woman Alexand had warned her about.

Alexand’s back story, set in Antarctica in the Prison of Souls (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 585: Asenath Bomani Part 3

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President Bomani and Samira Ganesh escorted their prisoner, Inajda Rekaya from the maximum-security laboratory, and took her to another maximum-security facility for processing. The Prison of souls. Generals Grace O’Malley and Xan Medani hover in the observation chamber, watching the captured Inajda Rekaya brief Alexand Merek from inside the holding cell.

Asenath’s back story, set in Antarctica, in the Prison of Souls (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 579: Heyem Merek Part 16

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Edith, together with her granddaughter, Heyem, search for something amongst the possessions of Ye-Shin, ex-girlfriend and present Amanojuko collaborator. (Apologies to readers for this scheduling oopsie. This episode was due to be released on 21st, and its mother was too busy with outside world S£i^ to realise it had not been published. Please enjoy this episode a week later than planned. All the very best for the New Year. Cheryl.)

Heyem’s back story, set in Hong Kong, (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 578: Appalachia

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After analysing Xan’s blood and determining that it is effective in neutralising Amanojuko DNA, Anesidor Sumian took Inajda to see her closest colleague, Dylwyn Sumian (no relation) to discuss weaponizing the blood for the resistance, so that they have a chance of fighting and defending themselves against these monsters in the future.

Anesidor’s back story, set in North America (3992)