The body crashed into the wall with a dull thud, followed shortly by the sound of a nose breaking under my fist.
I grabbed the soldier by the hair and threw him to the floor before kicking hi...
2022-04-24 22:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe plates were set, the curry was simmering, the white rice was done, and I’d bought an unreasonably expensive bottle of red wine and some wine glasses that I’d been assured would go gre...
2022-03-25 17:09:27 +0000 UTC View Post“So what now?” I said, arms crossed as I sat opposite of Butcher in his office. “‘Cause frankly I’m somewhere between ‘fuck out of ideas’ and ‘scared shitless that Batm...
2022-03-09 02:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostSamuel Andrés Reyes/Spider:
The call connected with a click and a, “911, what’s your emergency?”
“Hi, yeah, I have a question.”
“Uh... 2022-02-22 20:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The building was still getting fixed up, but it was already taking the shape I’d envisioned for my club.
It was a modest building on the outside, advertised only as Dirt Cheap Cleaners. A ...
Consciousness came with the kindness and velvet touch of a truck to the face.
I jerked awake, which lead to the discovery that no one had had the kindness to remove the chunks of woods stuck ...
2022-02-04 02:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post“I have to tell the police,” the driver blubbered.
“Good for you,” I said, helping my Mom out of the cab. “Tell the cops, tell the news, tell whomever the fuck you please. But keep ...
2022-01-26 19:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe smell of freshly brewed coffee and toast on
2022-01-26 19:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Your apartment’s fucking depressing, man.”
“That how they say hello where you’re from?”
Farah ignored my comment in favor of giving the bare walls of my apartment...
Years Ago:
I woke up a
"Do you think he's on the take from Cobblepot?"
The sun was reaching its peak over the city. Hustlers on the corners were crying out the brand names of whatever product they were slin...
Detective Harvey Bullock walked through the doors of Butcher's Shop and pretended not to notice the way the owner's hand twitched for the weapon behind the bar before he forced himself ...
2021-11-22 04:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post"God. Fucking. Dammit."
"Language," Nightwing chastised playfully, standing effortlessly on a windowsill as he grinned down from our left, twirling those sti...
"Everyone remembers their parts? ...A'ight, then we good to get out there. Remember, first priority is your lives. Anything else can go fuck itself, but y'all gotta come back. Understoo...
2021-11-22 04:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post"A'ight, I've got one," Farah said. "Jobs that you pulled through, even though it went wrong."
"Ooh, I like that one," said Billy. "Let's see... Sam, you mind if I use the Killer Moth story...
"I'll just have a burger. Put some of them red onions and spicy sauce on it, too." I said, handing over the cash. The food truck worker smiled at me when I put a twenty on the tip jar, ...
2021-11-22 04:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostI was so busy punching an I-Beam into oblivion
2021-11-22 04:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostYou know what the hard part of dealing with Two Face is? The fact that you never know where to look. Do you look him in the eye? Which one? Do you look away? Doesn't that leave the chan...
2021-11-22 04:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up at around ten thirty in the morning, to the sound of my alarm and someone shouting in the apartment next to mine.
Weighed down by last night's mistakes, alcohol-based and not, I c...
