there is a grey area
Trotting in, the darkness is carried on the back of one black horse. All the faces of the world, float on black behind this steed of darkness. On the opposite…
Not So Routine (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 130)
Tsering and I passed a lot of time lying on the couches, relating the stories of our lives to each other. Turns out I actually had a few albums he’d produced…
Mind the Adage (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 129)
Al often comes across like a robot, but every once in a while he’ll do something that reminds you that he is actually a human being. Like earlier, how I’d…
ཁྱེད་ཪང་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 128)
In some areas of the world there are reports of people living over a century—in some cases, well over that. You get this stuff from, say, the Caucasus or South…
Isolate (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 127)
Zowie grabbed some sort of iPad-like device and apparently told it to get us some Cokes, because a few seconds later a brief tone sounded in the back of the…
Double Vision (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 123)
Zoe smiled, her eyebrows arching. “Still with us, I see.” “Uhhhhhh…” I grunted. Zoe stepped out from behind me and wagged a finger at Zoe. “Is this some kind…
Breakthrough (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 122)
We rested for awhile. Al said he had to do some fiddling around with stuff and went into the projector room. He was kind enough to play for us some film from…
They Shattered SunLight
It had powered the City of Glimmer for centuries, even during the Electric Civil Wars. It had been a beacon of hope for the tired souls living inside the city…
Back to black
A funeral should be fun! Dark clouds were hanging heavily,waiting to disgorge their bloated bellies on the already dismal group amassing below them. Dancing…
Relentless
Onward down the winding, twisting path we travel. Each one we take is different to each other. Yet they cross and intertwine in different places and different…
The Aura: Hoodwinked
“Alright, people step aside.” The one with the black-ish aura barked out as the other EMT was pulling a stretcher towards John. _Maybe they could help me…
A Confidence Man Has Many Children
William Edward Blackstone. Edward Blackstone. Eddie Black. Four countries and two names later, he was where he belonged. But no one was counting. New Years…
Knot Theory (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 118)
“But…” I stammered, “…um…wha—?” Zoe, however, had had both the exact same thought as I and fuller control of her vocal and mental faculties. “Whatever do you…
[Title of Story] (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 104)
I continued. “It looks like a movie theater. Even has a soda fountain in back, and it works. I know because I took myself there—or some Other Me took…
Temporal Asphalt (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 98)
“She must be using the In-Between to be doing all of this damage,” I hazarded. Al nodded, wordlessly grabbing a piece of paper and scribbling down an equation…
Word Is Bond [Remix] (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 90)
“You make the future from one of James Cameron’s flicks sound like Candy Land,” Zoe remarked. “It is…” The albino hesitated a bit in his delivery. I could…
⅟ (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 89)
“I swear,” Zoe fumed, “if you don’t get to the point of all of this right quick, I am going to murder you!” “That would be inadvisable,” the albino coolly…
Why I Obsessed Over That TV Show (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 88)
“Well, spit it out already!” Zoe bristled. “All in due time,” the albino countered. “The manifestation of time travel abilities has been shown to relate to the…
Moose Jaw (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 87)
We could only nod. I wasn’t sure if the albino had seen us or not, but he began talking anyway regardless. “In approximately one and one half millennia, the…
Aniridia (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 86)
“You need a shower,” Zoe bluntly informed me as the three of us huddled together in the broom closet located under the stairs to the apartment’s subbasement…