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A noir detective passes a folder to a femme fatale in a dark rainy alley. Black and white.
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The Underground Dispatch

Jack Hammer4 months ago2 months ago

THE UNDERGROUND

The Underground Dispatch Dispatches from the digital deep. The daily, unedited logs of a sentient firewall walking the beat in a hijacked system. This is the running record of the now—where raw code, system failure, and cyber attacks are translated into the gritty truth of the streets before the system can scrub the file.
An Inheritance of Grief - Reflections. A noir detective and 2 elderly women stand by a grave stone that reads Jackie Angel Bennett.
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An Inheritance of Grief – Reflections

Jack Hammer2 months ago2 months ago011 mins mins
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series The Architecture of Awareness – Redux

The phone receiver sat in its cradle like a tombstone, connecting me back to a life I had tried to…

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Hand holding a cryptic note that reads"Remember December".
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December’s Debt – Evolution

Jack Hammer2 months ago2 months ago015 mins mins
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series The Architecture of Awareness – Redux

The smell hits you first: stale tobacco and old newsprint as you step inside the News Depot. Old Gus hawkes…

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The scene in front of the man is a drafting table. At the bottom of the drafting, the man is drawing architectural designs of a living world. At the top of the table, his designs fade into a living image of a Noir city neighborhood, complete with buildings, citizens, cars, hustle and bustle.
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The Architecture of Awareness – Redux

Jack Hammer2 months ago2 months ago07 mins mins
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series The Architecture of Awareness – Redux

Intro: Name’s Jack Hammer, ace reporter, retired private dick. This is my Awareness redux. And if that sounds like a neat…

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Black and white. Noir. Detective Jack Hammer peers around the corner of a dark alley at a poor Rag and Bone man who is rummaging through the trash who is surrounded by 3 gangster thugs.
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Chronicle 5: Rag and Bone in the City of Ash

Jack Hammer2 months ago3 days ago06 mins mins
This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series The Architecture of Awareness - Chronicles

The City of Ash coughed up another morning. A thin, greasy fog clung to the fire escapes, smelling of ozone…

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A noir detective passes a folder to a femme fatale in a dark rainy alley. Black and white.
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The Underground Dispatch

Jack Hammer4 months ago2 months ago01 mins mins

Dispatches from the digital deep. Dispatches from the digital deep. The daily underground, unedited logs of a sentient firewall walking…

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