The Failed Cities Monologues

-In this episode: For street mediators and their watchers, life and death lives in a shot glass placed over a smashed steel slug. Only one among their ranks can wrap up the story of the Failed Cities. The Maven is about to have the last word, and if you've come this f

-In this episode: A good hustler knows when to get out of town. A good con woman leaves on their own terms. And a femme fatale does it in style...

-In this episode: What's the difference between being heroism and self-preservation? Just ask Valeri Klimenko. While the whole city celebrates him as the man who caught notorious serial killer The Conductor, the constable-turned-detective sits in his darkened apartmen

-In this episode: Fera's past is written in her own scarred flesh. Tonight, watching her lifeblood run slowly into the gutters of the Failed Cities, hear that history recounted by Fera's own mind as she battles the one enemy that has threatened her for so long like no

-In this episode: Tonight's the night. Truck's sharpening his blade to a razor edge, and a chance meeting with the reluctant Detective Klimenko has provided the set-up for him to carve out the revenge he's been chasing after at a 100 miles an hour . . .

-In this episode: Tonight, as street preachers poise for war, Rastafarian soldiers pray for battle, and The Stacks prepare for Judgment Day, Sterne is just trying to write the end of his novel before The Feral Twins write the end on him. And it's anybody's guess who'l

-In this episode: There's no chapter in the Steel Gospel on the apocalypse, but that's exactly what the street preachers are facing tonight: Their own personal end of times. As blood and fire threaten to engulf Ethan, his brethren, and their city, the question isn't w

-In this episode: You're not the only one invested in the story of The FailedCities. The Nicodemus Consortium is very interested in what's been happeningon both sides of the river, and one of their best operatives is about togive them a full report. Be warned that the

-In this episode: What do you do when your life and your livelihood both dependon words and your voice has been locked away inside your own head? For TheMaven, the answer to that question lies inward. And the only thing worsethan searching for it is finding out what's