Shitty Beer is kind of a short story from Pritkin’s POV but mostly an off-stage scene from Claimed by Shadow. Do not read before CbS!

I loved another look at Mac and getting to know him better. As short as his screen time is, he’s one of my favorite characters from the series. And of course you can never have enough Pritkin!!

There isn’t much I can say about this short without spoilers so here’s two of my fav quotes from the story.

“[Pritkin] stared at his hand, suddenly feeling more than slightly off balance. Like the world had tilted, or like he’d blinked and it had changed. Maybe because it had, shattering in a million pieces just this morning, when his life took less of a turn and more of a jack knife.”

“[Cassie was] all alone. Just a tiny figure in that ridiculous [bright yellow happy face] t-shirt, with no weapons and no one at her back. Yet she’d been defiant. Obviously terrified, yet unbending, staring the embodiment of death itself in the face. And not blinking.” ( )