Tanya’s story Now: “You’ve got to kick this guy’s ass,” she said, as if it were some kind of simple thing. I don’t know if any of you know this, but contract assassins are relentless badasses who know what they’re doing; not like me, the hostage with borrowed powers. Shot after shot rang out, blasting [...]
Tanya’s story Now: It was so unreal, like my mind had stepped out onto the street and was only watching while somebody else flailed in the grip of that monster tentacle. If it were me up there I would have been screaming for him to let me go or started crying like a kid, but [...]
Okay, here’s the deal: ever have one of those experiences where everything you thought you knew about someone was turned completely upside down? That’s what’s happened to me in as many months the times my best friend came out to me: first to tell me that she wasn’t really a guy like I’d always thought, [...]
Kraisse looked on with depraved indifference as the executioners did their work. To witness a living being suffer until death didn’t faze him: it was only a human after all, a sentient parasite of which there were billions. What did one matter against their purpose? Crell justice had to be delivered both quickly and quietly [...]
Gold. Orange. Blue. White. Black. We garbed ourselves with tights, belts, armor and masks, same as we would if we were going to war. Somewhere out there was a monster, and with it our companions. It was going to take more than a handful of campers to bring them back. No, it was going to [...]
Gabby raised an eyebrow curiously at Jorge’s arrival. “You went grocery shopping? We had beans in the jet.” Looming over the cast iron pot the newly returned member of the Young Sentinels considered the requirements of his specialty dish, including the unopened cans he held in the paper shopping bag he’d brought with him. “Remember [...]
His thoughts were murky, same as the algae filled water through which he waded at nose level. How far had he come now? Who could say? Words had lost all meaning to him by that point. Day followed night followed day just as it had before and always would. Anything else was pointlessly complicated and [...]
What had I done? It didn’t matter that I’d lost control, that I was Brainwave’s slave and completely under her power: I was the one who’d blasted the captain so that not even ashes remained. Whatever blame they cared to lay on me I was more than willing to accept. A good man had paid [...]
Sitting outside the principal’s office I waited for the final word. It should have never come to this, but there we were with me kicking my heels impatiently for my fate to be sealed. While I wished it could have ended some other way I also knew it was inevitable. This was a long time [...]
Two weeks ago: Betty Bruiser sat. That was all she could ever do anymore as she awaited her death sentence to be carried out. Her shoulders, spanning the width of the carriage, and arms stretching to the floor had been bolted to the wall: a precaution in case the collar she’d been fitted with or [...]