Fire in the Hole (Superhero Black Hole, part 137)
We attached the explosives to the four corners of the Grid window with some clay-like bluish-grey putty. Al had upended the couch; using it and the cushions we…
Grasping at Straws (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 134)
Zowie and the others had been discussing our surely-impending doom for a couple minutes now, but I was paying them no mind. Despite all the guns and other…
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…
The rise of Shadow
I don’t remember the last time I was happy. I used to be a normal kid, until the day the borealis flared. The Northern Lights is what they used to be called…
Where Are My Adoring Fans?!?!
Policemen with their weapons drawn appeared in a matter of moment. The office temp cowered under the desk, screaming for him not to hurt her. How does one get…
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…
Leon Finds His Mojo
Leon stormed back to his desk. Seeing the evil unfold before him today pushed him over the edge. The stack of invoices on his desk would have to wait. He spent…
The Impact Of Leon
Tired of his daily mundane corporate existence, Leon decided to pursue his dream of becoming a superhero. He accepted that his crime-fighting origin was no…
Neptune
The man who later became the superhero, Neptune, was born a curly haired baby that his mother named Ryan. Ryan and his mother lived a relatively normal life…
The Flatulent Fakir
When Sivaramakrishnan was two years old and inflicted with horrid intestinal gas, his mother found him ricocheting on the walls of their small hut. “You had…
The Spectral Force, Triumphant!
Slowly, light enveloped his body as two other spectral shapes condensed into being nearby. They coalesced into large, geometrically armored figures, one a…
The Spectral Force VS Ramses II
“Kneel! Kneel before Ramses the Great!” Cleric dodged one of the magical plasma bolts which the self-proclaimed pharaoh was unleashing with alarming rapidity…
The Superhero's Manifesto
I will not self designate myself as a hero. If others call me such, so be it. I will not regard myself as anything other than a human being. I will not assume…
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…
Superlative Choice
She bit her lower lip as she watched the unstable reflection of her own uncertain expression on the surface of her tea. With a tiny squeeze of her fingers…
[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…