The only noise in room came from the muted tones of the life support equipment and the steady hiss of the respirator. Amara English sat in a metal chair with a barely comfortable cushion beside the bed of Finn Barnaby. Yesterday, she had tears enough when Finn’s parents had flown […]
Villain University Prologue Dean John Allen was sitting at his desk in his nicely furnished office, behind him was a view from a high-rise, overlooking Lake Michigan. It wasn’t actually a real window, but a holographic display, because in the underground HCP complex under Sizemore […]
Angela sat in the corner of the student union nursing a soda and trying very hard to not let the bongo drums get on her nerves. The theme for the freshmen orientation shindig was a luau, although the organizers weren’t too interested in details since bongo drums were Afro-Cuban not […]
Chapter 1 Jennifer Lee, the short, petite Asian girl with a purple streak running through her short black hair, had been shocked when the dean of the Sizemore HCP appeared at her home a few weeks ago and offered her a place in the program. He also offered […]
Chapter 2 After the meeting on Friday all those who hadn’t yet gotten theirs had gone to get the Id cards, schedules and books. Since Sam and Jennifer already had theirs they volunteered to get some basic groceries, and since Sam had a fake ID he also offered […]
Chapter 3 After the orientation, the seven invited several of the people from the various groups they had been talking to out to lunch at one of the cafeterias. Five other students agreed to go with them, the boy Jennifer has been talking to, Shawn Cain, two roommates […]
Chapter – VII During Coach Alex’s introduction, Max decided that he was going to take the offensive in this match. He saw Tom defy physics the day before, and who knew what would happen if one of those black orbs hit him. Max certainly wasn’t about to wind up in […]
“Merry Christmas!” Jia Sun’s whisper to her son was fiercely happy. Firmly ensconced in the Sun Family manor, she’d woken early, with the sky out her bedroom suite windows only pinking. But rather than sneak downstairs to the presents, she instead snuck down the family wing corridor to the nursery. […]
So, as I sat around the house this weekend, obviously procrastinating on the yard work my wife wanted me to be doing, I came up with this short story idea. I intended to have it up on Memorial Day, but I eventually had to get off my ass and clean […]
Chapter 4 By the end of gym on Friday, five more people had left or been kicked from the program, nobody was completely sure if falling behind in gym meant you were forced to leave, or if the exercise was simply too much to take and they didn’t […]