A villain believes that they have certain commonalities with the hero, that they are two sides of the same coin, that they have a special connection or symbiotic relationship, one is a dark reflection of the other, etc., etc., or anything along those same lines. Whether that's true or not is
THE QUEEN'S ROAST, a fairy-tale. told by Tom Russell I have no idea if this should be flagged with "ACRA" or not, but if you've read any fairy tales, you probably know the kinds of things to expect! There was once a good king. He was wise and temperate; he was a skilled diplomat and
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Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She's out of time. ____ __ __ / __
Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has two days left. ____ __ __
Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has two days left. ____ __ __
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Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has two days left. ____ __ __
Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has three days left. ____ __ __
Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has three days left. ____ __ __
Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has four days left. ____ __ __
Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has five days left. ____ __ __
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Melody Mapp was fourteen and dying when her mother gave up her own life to give her six more years. Since that day, Melody has used this borrowed time, and the super-speed that came with it, to protect the Earth and make a difference. She has six days left. ____ __ __
Melody Mapp's wristwatch gives her super-speed. It's also keeping her alive. She doesn't have much time left, but she's going to spend every second on the run as the third, final- and greatest- ____ __ __ / __ ____ ______/ /__/ /_ ____ _____________ / / / / __ `/
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Mickey Spillane once singled out "Vengeance is Mine" as his favorite of his own novels, because of its twist ending, which really came right at the end- the last word of the last sentence- and gave a new context to everything that happened before it.* Your challenge is to write a story- of
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A character has gone on holiday- short or long- and now must go back to his or her routine. Deadline is November 31st.
Maggie's awake for about an hour before she wakes up. This sensation, like sleeping naked in a cramped glass box, is something she's gotten used to since her birthday. The first thing she got used to, in fact. That never made it any easier to explain to her doctors though. What do you see
So, to recap: starting on her twenty-second birthday, Maggie Bernard has undergone a nightly transformation into a pink flesh-eating monster, and accidentally killed her best and only friend, Tyler Bridge. Eager for a change of scenery, she placed an advert looking for a roommate and a place to
Tyler is dead: to begin with. Maggie had been there when it happened. Maggie was the reason it happened. They were friends. Best friends from the first year of high school until the night he died. Why they were friends, she had no idea. Maggie was a big fat ugly nothing with no personality
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Ten years ago, Jamie Rosen and I started the Eightfold Universe. Later that same year, I began writing GREEN KNIGHT, the story of dying superhero Ray Cradle and his estranged ex-sidekick Martin Rock. At the conclusion of that series, Martin took on his mentor's mantle as sworn protector of Jolt
The terrorist organization FEVER had orchestrated a global fear event massive enough to summon the extra-dimensional Dyzen'thari, posing a threat not only to Earth, but to the fabric of space-time. Just as all this was going on, FEVER's twisted leader, Caracalla, activated the body-control
Derek Mason, the Blue Boxer, has returned from his non-linear trip into infinite alternate pasts, alone- his mentor, Martin Rock, the second Green Knight, has died, having sacrificed himself so that Derek could live. "...THEIR LAST ADVENTURE!" EIGHTFOLD PROUDLY PRESENTS THE
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COVER # 1 Towering skyscrapers loom in the night, thick blocks of concrete and steel stretching into the blackness. A thin red line of light runs straight up the side of one building before ending in a tiny circle: the insignia of the insidious body-terror group FEVER. A lone figure stands on
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High Concept Challenge number fifty-four: NEON TALKING SUPER STREET BAT-LUGE! One thing we've never had to deal with on RACC, thankfully and for obvious reasons, is "corporate synergy". We've never had to insert a character, costume, accessory, secondary mutation, or concept that has as its pr
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And the winner by a hair is Mr. Perron. Take it away, Andrew!
Sorry for the delay, folks- I've just been insanely busy with some (actually fairly exciting) Real Life Stuff. Here's the link: [LINK] Voting ends on Friday!
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