“Are you sure it’s her?” “It’s her.” “I don’t know, man. Last time we crossed this bastard he stole her body. How do we know he hasn’t pulled the same trick again?” “It’s her,” the second one said with finality. “I’m empathic, and I know what Laser Lass brand of pissed off feels like.” Prying [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]