Lockspear and other stories

Lockspear and Other Stories (2018)

Lockspear and Other Stories

Lockspear

One day, Kalypso, the love of E’s life, vanishes. But her disappearance is only the beginning of what seems like the end, his world physically disintegrating around him, every disappearance marked with the word Lockspear. But death turns out to be a rebirth, as he awakes to find out it was all just a game, one he’d been playing so long his body lapsed into full paralysis. His company, Lockspear Industries, has extracted him to keep him from dying; however, his only memories are those of the woman he loved and the world that was destroyed.

When the woman who extracted him assures him his experiences were archived in the same game, E insists on going back; and she agrees to join him to find the brother who, like many others, died while playing it. Their journey takes them through unfamiliar landscape, anomalies in the code used to locate a place that operates according to no rules. Something in the game has achieved self-awareness and it may be the best chance E has of living the life he wished he’d lived.