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He was stuck in Juneau. There was no helping it. Why his parents took a winter cruise to Alaska was beyond him. Most normal people took this trip during the summertime, when everything was green, and lush, and warm. When planes wouldn’t be grounded in the tiny podunk of a state capital. He could barely [...]

I was shivering. It was warm enough in my apartment, but I shook like I was outside. It must have been the fact that I had finally stopped to think about what had happened. I had been raped. I could barely form the word in my own mind. That sick bastard touched me, raped me, [...]

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Sarah heard the shout. She dropped the register she had been busy breaking into two or three pieces and went out through the hole in the wall. She stopped, cold. Peter was lying there on the ground, blood streaming from his nose and forehead, pooling around his head in a slushy mess.
Suddenly, she was [...]

Peter was cold. Too damn cold to be outside, in a back alley, at night. Early morning, rather. Sarah had brought him here, carrying him like Superman carried Lois Lane, only with the obvious gender reversal. The scenery blew by like a VCR on super fast forward, not like the TiVo effect that Sarah had [...]

Sarah filled out the chain letter with no intention of sending it along to anyone. She was tired, and hungry, and really just wanted to go to sleep. But the computer beckoned:
1. What is your occupation? Superhero, and Kaladi barista
2. What color are your socks right now? Carharts, brown. Bunny Boots, thick socks and some [...]

( the next two sections aren’t finished. They helped me work out of some writer’s block,t hough, so I’m leaving them in.)
He finished his meal, and set down his glass. The merlot went well with the broiled meat. He looked around the apartment with satisfied eyes. It had been a good hunt.
She had suspected something [...]

Filthy Assistants! TO ME!
“OK, so we got Superman Returns, Superman One and Two, cause three and four didn’t count.”
“Right…”
“We got all the Burton Batmans, the–” he shuddered,”–Schumacher Batmans, and now the good one.”
“Yep.”
“Spiderman one, two, and soon to be [...]

[author’s note: the relationship between these characters has changed. it seemed less interesting to have them meet, and learn to trust each other, before the friendship could play the role I originally wanted it to. I‘ve decided, for now, to let them be roommates with a certain amount of time knowing each other. I’ll have [...]

“Remind me again why we’re in fucking Salt lake?”
“They rerouted us away from Chicago.”
“And why the fuck did we want to go to Chicago?”
“It’s the only way to get to Seattle”
“I wanted. To go to. Anchorage.”
“Calm down. Seattle is the only way to Anchorage from where we started.” Mr. Gray was getting tired of his [...]

Sarah bent the bars that covered the window of the convenience store. It was closed tonight, which was why she was here.
Suddenly, they gave way and the entire set of bars came loose from the building. The long security bolts came out with them, leaving large gouged scars in the wall and stucco surface. [...]