The world is a big place, bigger than most of us ever get to be – even with all the scares you know that it’s going to outlive you. Never did I think that I would actually watch it end, high in the sky and far from the carnage, but still able to see how [...]
Dr. Robinson watched the girl on the monitor, pounding on the door demanding to be let out. She was a superhero, known to most as ‘Glimmer Girl’, as though that meant something – trapped in the bottom end of their satellite she was helpless as a kitten. It was almost funny seeing such a powerful [...]
I struggled in the back of a van, trying to get my costume on. It was lucky I’d brought it along – you never know when there might be an emergency, like going on your first date, and finding out that a bunch of nukes could wipe out your country any minute. If that weren’t [...]
There are days when it feels like the fighting will never stop. No matter what I did or how hard I tried there would be something that put me at loggerheads with the folks, especially Mom. I had to wonder, was she doing this because most mothers and daughters fought? If she was then I [...]
You ever hear one of those arguments between fanboys – ‘who would win in a fight between (insert whoever and whatever here)?’ It doesn’t matter who it is – Jet Li or Van Damme, Mike Tyson or George Foreman, Hulk Hogan or the Easter Bunny, when you’re a superhero you hear that kind of talk [...]
Even before it started I knew it was a dream. How could it not be? My house and the school auditorium were the same place, and my usual barista, Gloria, was doing tai chi in front of the Taj Mahal. Searching the crowd I saw my Mom and Dad, dressed in overalls and top hats, [...]
Ever have one of those moments where your world is turned upside down and nothing makes sense? This was one of them. I shook my head hoping that maybe I was just seeing things, but the street was still crawling with… with…! There were hundreds of them – wearing clothes and walking around like they [...]
“Come on… where is it?” Justin, that was to say Jason, searched the room to no avail. Even after pulling out drawers, emptying the wardrobe and upturning the bed he couldn’t find what he was looking for. Crap, he cursed. Why then? Right when Kaira needed him most what could have been the key to [...]
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 [...]