While I generally leave anything referring to comic books or superheroes to my esteemed friend and colleague Rebekah Hendershot, author of Masks, I am now stepping in. Dear Disney, you own Marvel now. Have Joe Quesada walk the plank off the roof of 666 5th avenue. You can have Johnny Depp hold the sword that nudges him off, if you like. Why do I say that?...
SF (speculative fiction; the category includes science fiction, fantasy, and related genres) has a lot in common with erotica. Both are ridiculously easy to write badly and excruciatingly difficult to write well. Both are widely considered "inferior" by the mainstream literary community, yet actually contain some of the finest literature in existence. (Vonne...
January 20, 2025 "Please raise your right hand and repeat after me: I, Mark Douglas Robinson, do solemnly swear..." "I, Mark Douglas Robinson, do solemnly swear..." "That I will faithfully execute..." "That I will faithfully execute..." "The Office of President of the United States..." "The Office of President of the United States..." "And will, to th...
It's been over a decade since the last time we got to see a sequel to Street Fighter and like a lot of fans I feared that we would never see a fourth installment. Like every fan around the world I was on my feet cheering when I heard the announcement last year that we would finally be getting to control Ryu and Ken in a game that didn't have Vs. in the title...
Michael turned on the news with anxiety rumbling his gut. He slouched on his sofa, trying to ease the tension in his shoulders after a long day at work. The lines had not gotten shorter. He'd done three hundred and twenty six implants on his shift. Not a record, but close. His team had been working non stop since the announcement of the SSA program. His blue...
A lot of people say that my religion is violent. There are lots of violent men in all races and religions, and people shouldn’t generalize. As a black man living in North America, I know this all too well. People’s habit of generalizing and oversimplifying that which they do not understand. My name is Solomon “Suleiman” Winston and I am a man with a story to...
Humans once believed they were alone in the universe. They were wrong. Despite a long standing history of conspiracies and so called evidence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life, most of this was either a hoax, or a legitimate confusion over something much more tangible. Despite this fact there was no denying alien life, when the first wave struck. Early 2015;...
The name is Monique Jeannette Henderson. A six-foot-one, heavyset, wide-hipped and big-bottomed, beautiful young Black woman living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. I attend the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where I major in civil engineering. This right here of my tale of getting by in the city of Boston. It’s hard out here for a sister but I’m...
My name is Michael Weston. I'm a six-foot-one, lean and wiry young man of African-American and Mexican descent living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. I'm currently a sophomore at Barrack College in downtown Boston and I major in Criminal Justice. Someday I'm going to be a police officer, like my father Leonard Winston before me. In the meantime, I've...
Hello, there. My name is Styx. She whom the Underworld's deadliest river is named after. At first glance, I seem like a your average six-foot-tall, dark-skinned and long-haired, voluptuous woman sporting stylish urban gear. Yeah, that's the image the world sees when looking at me. However, as is the case with most people, there's more to me than meets the ey...