Even under three layers of clothing I shivered. Northern winters were never kind, especially to people who were living rough. The days weren’t so bad, especially if you were resourceful enough to not look homeless, at least then you could find a public area with heating, but the nights were frigid and unforgiving and scarce [...]
I had to get away. Vortex wasn’t going to waste any time. If I didn’t evade his grasp then he could easily… suddenly I lost my train of thought. What was I supposed to be doing? Something was very, very wrong. Actually a lot of things were very, very wrong. For some reason my clothes [...]
“Call it what it is,” she roared. “This is outright discrimination, and if you think we’re going to stand for it you’ve got another thing coming!” Assistant Principal Ferguson urged her to be calm, but that was probably because he was new. Little did he realize that he’d started a war and that telling the [...]
“I don’t believe it,” someone groaned. “Asleep for her own party. Can you believe that?” “Portal Man or whatever his name is must’ve really given her a work out,” another responded. Neither voice belonged to people I knew. I pried my eyes open, momentarily forgetting that I was being held upright within a wheel of [...]
The next thing I knew I was lost in the golden haze. Maybe I wasn’t as dead as I thought as I was. When my hard light body finally reassembled itself I looked up to see an assembled SWAT team aiming cautiously in my direction. “Er… I come in peace?” I smiled sheepishly. “Let her [...]
“My name is Dr. Fellows,” the bearded man said plainly. “Teddy if you like, though most refer to me by my professional title.” He offered me his hand and I shook it nervously, all the while his cool unblinking gaze rested on me like a cold, wet blanket. There was something about him that threw [...]
The whole night was a blur. From the ambulance ride to the racing hospital orderlies all around me I could barely keep my focus. All I wanted was to fall asleep, but a voice kept telling me not to. “Wake up, Justin,” the doctor told me sharply. “You’ve got a concussion. You need to stay [...]
If I’m going to tell this story properly I’m going to have to take you back to the beginning. Imagine a nervous young boy in his first year of junior high. He’s dangly, awkward and completely alien in his own skin. The reality that he’s growing up has only just crept up and haunts him [...]