Yesterday. Jimeno brought the earthen cup to his lips and drank. Almost immediately he sputtered and spat, desperate to get the taste out of his mouth. The others laughed, as they always do. "This is it?" he said. "This is what we're so desperate to keep a secret from the English?" Pedro smirked. "This is just the way the savages drink it, I
EIGHTFOLD COMICS GROUP PRESENTS A HIGH CONCEPT ADVENTURE JOURNEY INTO... # 10 "Cover Story" They stop my photographer at the door. "No photos. Verboten." We had been told that Fraulein Schenck had consented to be photographed. "Frau Schenck changed her mind. No photos. Verboten." Mikey waits outside. One of the guards searches me for a camera,
The following is a work of fiction, and more than that, it aims to be a work of comedy- of exaggeration and invention. I have been employed at a municipal library for over a decade, and so I can safely (and unequivocally) say that it does not to my knowledge reflect the actual workings of any library, public or private; its events and
[NOTE: Units of measurement, animal names, and dialogue are generally presented in their English equivalents, except when no equivalent exists, or when the difference is considered to be of interest.] Through brutal tactics and aggressive terraforming, the Daughters of Mars had driven their parent species to the brink of extinction; the
Always ten steps ahead, that Shaka Zoom. Plans within plans, a web of contingencies and feints that are nearly as impossible to comprehend as they are to predict. Proclaimed as the world's greatest mind, and not just self-proclaimed, at that.
No it wouldn't, thought the diabolical Professor Longitude with a scowl. He had to stop thinking like that - as though he were facing off against a hero. The four colours were annoying in their spurious morality, but they also tended to be comfortably predictable. But the diabolical Professor Longitude had to get out of the mindset of fighting heroes if he was going to battle against... himself!
Cold open. Lake Guntersville, Alabama. May 2010. Five years. Whaley has arranged to be out of Washington for the week of the anniversary. He's adept at handling the press, known for candor, warmth, and precision in a position that often thrives on the opposite; he'd have to be, to have been retained, let alone promoted,
She sighs and lets her head drop, soft and heavy, onto her sister's shoulder. "Oh, Kellin," she says, drawing the name out into a girlish whine, "I'm so tired of being inside." "You and me both, kiddo," says Kellin. "But there's nothing we can do. We have to wait for Garaka and her group." "They've been gone for nine hours," says Ress. "How much longer do we have to wait?"
The dracula's name was Simon. Just as there are good boys and girls and bad boys and girls (though mostly boys are bad), there are good draculas and bad draculas. I'm sorry to say that most draculas are bad, and that Simon was a bad dracula.
8FOLD/HCC: Journey Into #17 : Back From the Dead (HCC44) Eightfold Comics Group Presents A High Concept Adventure JOURNEY INTO #17: 'Back From The Dead' by Saxon Brenton He was capering. No, seriously, he was honest-to-goodness dancing on the spot, capering with glee. Doctor Longitude wasn't en
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[8FOLD/HCC] Journey Into #21 (HCC51) Eightfold Comics Group Presents A High Concept Adventure JOURNEY INTO #21: 'The Truth About Someone Else's Identity' by Saxon Brenton [8F-139] The diabolical Professor Longitude was flying for the simple pleasure of it. In part he w
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I love the way this story is told. I kind of reminds me of "Everything Wil Be OK" by Don Hertzfeldt, in its tone and narrative style. Great job! Really enjoyed it. - Mike.
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