Vignette: Shadow over the City

By WM. Garrett Cothran On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 97th contest was Megaprojects. The alarm rang with a bright, metallic insistence. It was a faint bluish color, its bell still stamped in looping Imperial script beneath a strip of government-issued German…