Lanciostory #17

When most of the crew disembarks in Singapore, three drug dealers abandon Barney at sea and take the *Cormoran* into open waters—where one of them carries a deadly secret. In this tense, atmospheric tale, isolation and contagion collide on a ship far from help.

In a quiet moment of unexpected mercy, a man finds a wounded dog with wild, wolf-like features—its fur matted, its paws torn—and tends to its wounds. Just as he begins to heal the creature, a chilling call shatters the stillness: his ex-wife has been found dead in her campsite, her body savagely torn apart.

In the sun-scorched streets of Barra Amazonas, a man survives by selling his rare blood—until a determined new social worker offers him a chance at something more. With quiet persistence, she pushes him toward a job that might change everything, setting off a chain of choices he never expected.

In the final hours of a crumbling campaign, a lone Confederate lieutenant faces a desperate choice as Union forces close in on a vital bridge. With few men left and no hope of reinforcement, he pleads with his captain to retreat—yet duty and honor may demand more than survival.

In the grimy heart of New York’s Bowery, a discarded robot stumbles through the streets of the forgotten—until a sudden vision changes everything. Claiming to have seen God, he awakens to a purpose: to save the world, though how he’ll do it remains a mystery.

In "Oro bianco," Diego recounts his painful return to find Maria, only to learn she was compelled by Don Javier de Torres to work among rubber plantations, her spirit tested by a debt not her own. The story unfolds with quiet intensity, tracing a path of longing and loss in a world where beauty and hardship are woven together.

In "Meccanismo," a stranded alien probe collides with an abandoned American spy satellite, triggering its self-repair system to fuse the two craft into something new—uneven, unpredictable, and driven by a need to complete itself. As the hybrid vessel drifts through space, it begins seeking more pieces, blurring the line between machine and purpose.

Jeff’s fed up with being told how to live—so he flips the script, chasing success on his own terms, no rules, no limits. A sharp, grounded take on ambition and rebellion, this 1981 tale unfolds with quiet intensity, following one man’s defiant leap into a life of his own making.