“Thanks again for helping us out, Felicity,” Barry Allen said as he helped his friend/ally Dr. Caitlin Snow set up the last of the tesla coils. “With Harry and Cisco investigating the report of that plant creature in Florida we were really short-handed. Felicity Smoak glanced up from her computer and smiled at the man who was secretly The Flash, the fastest...
No amount of genius guarantees success. Countless hours of painstaking checking and double-checking of equations and algorithms were no guarantee that this project would work. I thought back to the first true attempt with a mouse I'd bought down at Petsmart. I named him Scotty, and after wiring up the steel plate to the coax inverter coupling sequence, I pla...
The iron door hung heavy on its hinges. Poe raised his hand and banged as loud as he could. A small camera buzzed as it panned back and forth across the hallway. He stared into the lens, and it hesitated a moment on him. He raised the cooler in his hands. A loud click sounded, and the door's security disengaged. Poe went inside, and the door slammed behind h...
Prologue: An excerpt from The Case of the Red Corset, by Doctor Tobias Jefferson, July 1895 The door finally splintered under my repeated shoulder barges and I stumbled into the bedroom, brandishing my old service revolver. My eyes tried to adjust to the near darkness, the only light source being dawn's faint glow coming through the open French windows. Fie...
With the sudden obliteration of a strange comet over the pacific ocean few cared what would happen. Microscopic spores purposefully spread to major landmasses entering everywhere. Only when some humans discovered the spores a few months later did activate consuming all organic life that it came in contact with and spreading its strange carapace like structur...
Starship Traveler: Chapter Four: XXXXXXXXXXXXX It takes great patience to travel between stars." "I don't think I will ever be patient like that." "Revekah, you are just a newborn infant, only eighty-six years old. Do not discount your capacity to learn and grow. You will learn many things." "What did you do to pass all that time as you traveled?" "I...
Chapter Seventeen Relating the horror of Tenerife and how the infection had spread to several countries made for a very troubled breakfast. James made Carolyn and John aware of what had happened in the other dimension and what was to follow here if not stopped. "They are desperate for a vaccine, any progress?" "No, I've been working on it constantly. I an...
A friend called me about my writing, old family friend I hadn't seen in a while who'd recognized it as mine though I post online under a pseudonym and change details to make us unrecognizable, fictionalize it. Frank identified the stories as mine because of my involvement with- marriage to- a Japanese woman. Of course he knew about that. He was also aware...
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Confederacy Triumphant Chapter 5 Year 3 of the Yuuzhan Vong War Elan, Priestess of Yun-Harla, sat passively in the cold steel detention room, prisoner of the Confederacy. Aware that she was being observed by bizarre and unholy non-living devices, she stood slowly and ran her hands down the sides of her flawless body. By Yuuzhan Vong standards, Elan was s...