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

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 # 665: The Omnipresent Guild Masters of Time

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

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 # 656: The Falling Asylum Part 3

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 # 637: The Right Asenath

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 # 620: Angels from the Future Part 22

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 # 617: Aïcha Merek De Somme Part 2

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

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

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

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 # 605: Thirteenth Anniversary Special Part 3: Iosif Merek

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

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

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

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

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

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 # 585: Asenath Bomani Part 3

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

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 # 570: The Prison of Souls Part 6

Inajda thought it far too risky to take Alexand and Jarad to the Kyuunansen, as a temporary sanctuary, due to the fact Katherine De Somme is alive and well, onboard. Needing to avoid any potential encounters, (paradoxes) Inajda had no choice but to take her fleeing family to the most secure place in the whole world. The Prison of Souls.

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

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 561: Doctor Heyem Merek Part 2

Generals Xan Medani and Edith MehXian have been ordered by President Asenath Bomani to keep watch over Xan’s progeny, as the Amanojuko agents are taking particular interest in their twin granddaughters, Alexand and Heyem. Xan and Edith sit in the second row of Heyem’s lecture theatre posing as students. Xan has used a gender switch to disguise himself, as he believes Heyem could recognise him as a man. Edith being much younger than she was when she had died, remains in her own body.

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

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 554: The Man Who Could Not Age (12 Year Anniversary Special Part 1)

After taking possession of the man who could not age, (Eric Mehmed) or rather his dead body, Gianti Dincrind has cloned his cells and the cells of his twin daughters Alexand and Heyem Merek, and his dead son Farokh so that she can find out a way of fixing the glitches in Amanojuko DNA. So far, she has had very little success. (This story is dedicated to Jinkx Monsoon, and all the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race,  who have lifted me up throughout the pandemic. “A little bit of love, goes a long, long way. Lifting you up to a brighter day.”) Thank you to everyone who has supported Unbound boxes for the past twelve years. It, along with my son, Sam is my reason to feel alive.

Gianti Dincrind’s back story, set onboard a Floating Asylum ship (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 473: Alexand Merek Part 20

After Sister Ancille confirmed that Alexand’s grandparents were the suspects in her father’s murder, Alexand retreated from the city, frightened that her father’s legacy did indeed suggest that she and Heyem were in danger from the Amanojuko, because of what could potentially be in their blood. (Special thanks to David Gittlin. You can read David’s blog here.)

Alexand’s back story, set in Hong Kong and Japan (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 460: Angels from the Future Part 4

The Guild Master’s General has had the audacity to take Katherine with him on the very same cart ride that Alexand’s father is on. Neither of them is phased out of focus and are corporeal. The Guild Masters General has replaced his balaclava with a Stetson hat, and his sunglasses have clear lenses, so they look like ordinary glasses. They are both a few seats behind Eric Mehmed. Thankfully Eric doesn’t recognise Katherine as they had never met, although Alexand told her father a lot about the woman she fell in love with, so Katherine has insisted that the Guild Master’s General call her by her middle name, Anastasia.

Katherine’s back story, set in China (3987)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 451: Heyem Merek Part 14

Heyem has stopped going out at night and rarely socialises. She has thrown herself into her work, and every night, after her lectures have finished, she studies the list of Amanojuko agents given to her by Alexand. Helga Ritter is the only one on the list she has recognised, but she is becoming increasingly paranoid and suspects practically everyone.

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

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 430: Antun Rekaya Part 6

Antun has tied up the grave robber, gagged him and locked him in his outbuilding. He has sent his wife and children to her mother’s house, ten miles away. He hasn’t called the National Guard, as he thinks they may have ties to the Amanojuko, and has locked all the doors and windows, waiting for Alexand to arrive, after he requested she come to him, in the letter he wrote.

Antun’s back story, set in China (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 429: Twinhood Part 5

Alexand, on her way to see her uncle Antun, dropped by Heyem’s apartment in Hong Kong, as she wanted her sister to be present when she shares intelligence with her uncle. She has been given the profiles of all known Amanojuko agents, has memorised the faces and the names of the Chinese and Indian agents, and mapped them inside her head, like musical notes attached to songs. She realises that this may not be possible for Heyem or Antun to do, but she needs them both to tell her if they recognise any of the agents. She and Heyem materialise outside their uncle’s village.

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

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 422: Doctor Heyem Merek

Heyem has been back lecturing for two months and has grown increasingly tired of people recognising her as the identical twin sister of the semi-famous Colonel Merek. Heyem has just about finished a two-hour lecture on women’s empowerment through media, and has been unable to avoid questions being hurled at her about her sister.

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

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 421: The Enemy Mind Part 8

Lord Anderson has instructed that in order to compensate for Katherine’s Bullet, and the failure of the virus to eradicate degenerates and rebels, more asylum ships have been commissioned, and set to sea. They are being filled with those previously infected by the virus, homosexuals, the mentally ill, the disabled and military rebels. He materialises on board his maiden ship, to consort with Helga Ritter.

Filius’ back story, set onboard a Floating Asylum ship (3992)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 405: Colonel Merek Part 3

Alexand returns to the army vehicle she arrived in, sits in the driver’s seat, watching people walk past, from behind the safety of the glass, after her very short honeymoon ended. She and Jarad had argued over why she wouldn’t talk to him about crying on the banks of the river. Jarad stormed off, leaving Alexand to become Colonel Merek again.

Alexand’s back story, set in Hong Kong, (3991)

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 404: The Enemy Mind Part 5

Gianti has waited all day and into the evening for any trace of Colonel Merek. The military has packed up their relief mission for the night, and the queues of people have been turned away until the morning. Finally, Colonel Merek appeared from the same doorway her sister emerged from that morning. Gianti followed her towards some army tents attempting to keep a low profile.

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

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 401: The Legacy Part 3

Heyem has spent two hours working with the military relief team, injecting victims of the Amanojuko’s secret project, with the antidote. She has been assigned to a tent which deals with the more obviously infected patients. It was arranged that patients be split into groups depending on the severity of their symptoms. This group of patients are symptomatic, some almost as sick as Alexand had been, before she was cured. Heyem is having a tough time dealing with all the suffering.

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