“Oh crap.” Mason exited the tube ten feet up and flailed his arms like a chicken as he fell. <Why do they keep doing this to me?> He grumbled as he hit the asphalt. He rolled with it so he didn’t break anything, because flimsy asphalt and earth were much […]
Stella found her old high school friends at a mid-scale hipster bar in Richmond by looking for the tall and dark haired Michelle, and the tall and blonde Mitch. Finding them by looking for Andrea would have been a lost cause even in a small crowd, as she was barely […]
Seth walked out of the classroom massaging his temples. He scooted to the side so the rest of the class could exit. He leaned against the wall and savored the cool chill than ran through him when he pressed his head against the wood. <Fuck me, that sucked.> Mathematical equations […]
The next day, Stella met the leads for the other two Variant Child Services teams. Linda Anderson was tall, thin, and in late middle age. In contrast to Miriam Foster’s kindly and approachable, Agent Anderson looked stern and forbidding. She was a person who commanded respect, but was also someone […]
Hellgate and a five-man assault team lay prone in the tall grass outside the power plant’s perimeter. It had not been an enjoyable last few hours. Winter was becoming spring so things were starting to bloom back to life, and that included the mosquito population. Even in his full-body costume, […]
FIVE Stella awoke in a hospital bed in a small windowless room with clearly reinforced walls, and much sturdier than normal fixtures and fittings. Something about the room was maddeningly familiar. She heard Miriam’s voice in what was, for her, an angry rant. “…. send me someone with a damaged […]
It took Professor Stone relatively little time to restore Stella’s memories. More of that evening was taken up by tests in the Lander medical clinic, where they attempted to determine how those memories had come back in the first place. The DVA staff and doctors had theories about how Stella […]
“So…” Liz set down her phone and looked back at her two friends. “What are your plans for summer break?” Becca brightened up instantly. “I’ll be spending the summer in plaid.” “Plaid?” Liz snorted. “Plaid won’t go well with that hair.” Becca’s pout didn’t extinguish the excited twinkle in her […]
The next few weeks of Stella’s life were occupied with paperwork, seminars, training, more paperwork, and a stint shadowing each of the other Intervention teams on several cases. Specifically, she was assigned to follow the cowboy Bruce Ramirez most of the time, as her powers were similar to his. With […]
Anika felt like someone had hooked her behind the naval and pulled. The sensation wasn’t doing her balance any good. She felt like she was in the middle of a horrible drinking game. The one where you chug out of a plastic yellow bat, put your forehead on it, spin […]