"SAMMY" THE LAB RAT BEING & TIME (IN THE GRAY WORLD) PERILOUS ADVENTURE II RESCUED BY RAUM
"SAMMY" THE LAB RAT BEING & TIME (IN THE GRAY WORLD) PERILOUS ADVENTURE ABDUCTED II RESCUED BY "RAUM" THE ROOK FROM "HOWLET" THE SHADOW CREATED BY J. BECK 2025 "The Call of the City" "Though safe in Matty Orlando's apartment I Felt an Undeniable Pull t From the Outside Gray World Beyond the Glass From theUpstairs Apartment Window I could see the Great City A Towering Labyrinth of Brick & Motar-- Steel & Glass Stretching up to meet the Gray Sky This was the True Gray World—the Domain of my Wild Kin I spent my Days Observing the City's Pulse: I could hear Them: the other Rats. They lived Below in the moist dark Tunnels of the Subways & the rich decaying Bounty of the Garbage Alleys They were the "Gray Rats," the ones who knew the secrets of the stones and the endless feast of human waste. Their world, a pungent, damp realm of survival, was a direct and terrifying contrast to the clean structured exist...