HONG KONG GIANT – EPILOGUE: MY NAME IS ANNA CHEUNG

EPILOGUE: MY NAME IS ANNA CHEUNG “I got a question, sir.” “Oh?” “It, um, might sound stupid.” “Go ahead. “How the hell do you prosecute a learning network?” Han lit up, looking out across the water. “Thing is,” he said, studying the opposite shore. “You don't.” For a few seconds he and Detective Wang, bright-eyed...

HONG KONG GIANT 6C – THE OTHER SHORE

6C/THE OTHER SHORE It was gone and Anna saw it had jumped, leaping skyward in a single bound, its muscles bulging out of their armour. She adjusted her aim and fired and the pellets went wide, the angle too low, slamming into the concrete of the fortress walls. From above great thick arms closed around...

HONG KONG GIANT 6B – THE BLACK GOD

6B/THE BLACK GOD They watched the video five times and then watched it one more, Anna in her chair with the laptop in front of her and Wong on the desk staring with a furrowed brow at the screen and saying nothing. Leung and Tseng, the other two guys, were watching too; but really it...

HONG KONG GIANT 6A – THE REPUBLIC OF HONG KONG

6A/THE REPUBLIC OF HONG KONG After she had gone Shaoyi did nothing for a little while, thinking. Then he made himself a cup of tea. “You know that was a huge mistake, right?” Xiaomei said to him, as he took his finished cup of ginger and sat with it on the bed, which was still...

HONG KONG GIANT 5C – BE METAL, MY FRIEND

5C/BE METAL, MY FRIEND “So Cha was sworn in yesterday.” “That's not really any of my business.” With this Anna and Lucy's discussion of politics over Saturday morning tea began and ended. The teahouse was on Shanghai Street and the owner didn't speak Chinese or English and the wallpaper was dirty and faded. Lucy hadn't...

HONG KONG GIANT 5B – DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?

5B/DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING? She stood in her uniform with her helmet removed. Sun looked at her. His face was older than usual, wrinkled and worn and with something like sadness in his eyes, and she was the only one of the pilots left in his office after the debriefing and she didn't...

HONG KONG GIANT 5A – HELLO FLESHENGINE

5A/HELLO FLESHENGINE  Her weather app told her that it was going to rain all weekend. Anna was looking forward to it; she'd grown kind of fond of rain in the last few days. Johnny, he of the hair gel and open shirt who had driven a taxi and come from Shenzhen, had moved out, and...

HONG KONG GIANT 4C – GLORY TO HONG KONG

4C/GLORY TO HONG KONG It rained for two whole days while they were waiting for the strike and Emily lay on her mattress and listened to the machinegun sound of the storm hurling itself against the rotten old walls of the apartment block and wondered when Zeus was coming back. She had last seen him...

HONG KONG GIANT 4B – SOCIAL HEALTH

4B/SOCIAL HEALTH Shaoyi sipped at his flask of coffee and walked about the silent streets of Central, watching the lights come on as they still did every night without purpose, incongruous colour exploding up out of the frozen city. There were tanks upon the roads and trucks upon the corners, barricades erected and everything dressed...

HONG KONG GIANT 4A – ENGINEERS OF THE HUMAN SOUL

4A/ENGINEERS OF THE HUMAN SOUL “So, constable. I know this is an abrupt question. But do you want to help us? You're under no obligation to accept. This is not police work, strictly speaking. But the PLA can't act alone. We need the help of as many loyal members of the HKPF as there are...