Clark adjusted his jacket as he lingered at the edge of the dockside street. The warehouse Hookwolf had chosen looked like any other in the vicinity as it loomed ahead, its steel walls streaked wit...
2025-08-27 05:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Taylor had tried. God, she had tried.
Every step she took to enter the warehouse had been careful.
Even after she’d blundered into Bakuda’s opening trap, she forced herself to...
2025-08-26 07:15:42 +0000 UTC
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Nakamura had been afraid before.
He’d been afraid when the waves came crashing over Kyushu, when Leviathan tore through the city like a god made of storm and fury. He’d been afraid as he ...
2025-08-25 15:08:40 +0000 UTC
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Naruto leaned back in the uncomfortable chair shoved into the corner of his tiny office, legs propped lazily on the desk, and eyes half-shut. It was late, long after the last bell had rung, and all...
2025-08-25 09:39:43 +0000 UTC
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Battery hadn’t expected much when the call came through.
Miss Militia’s coded message had been short and to the point: Target sighted at Fugly Bob’s. Civilian presence is heavy....
2025-08-24 05:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Miss Militia—or Hannah, since she was in civilian wear now, her dark hair tied back with a cheap scrunchie—kept her shoulders loose and posture relaxed, the way she had practiced for years. Not...
2025-08-22 07:09:18 +0000 UTC
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Anakin knew he shouldn’t judge someone based on appearances. He’d learned that lesson a hundred times over, having met Jedi Masters who started off from humble beginnings, smugglers who turned ...
2025-08-22 05:04:27 +0000 UTC
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The next shove had more force than Greg expected, more than it should’ve had. His sneakers squeaked against the tiled flooring as he staggered back away from the lockers, his own backpack swingin...
2025-08-20 06:25:37 +0000 UTC
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Taylor dodged the first hard-light blast, not because she was faster than him, but because she was already moving, already reacting before her mind had caught up with what was happening. It wasn’...
2025-08-19 09:13:22 +0000 UTC
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On the personal front, things weren’t going great.
Her dad was really worried. He didn’t say it outright—communication was still a difficult thing for both of them—but Taylor could re...
2025-08-19 08:23:02 +0000 UTC
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Greg wasn't exactly dressed to impress.
His latest makeshift costume wasn't great. It wasn't even good. A hoodie, some basic motorcycle protective equipment underneath, and another cheap mas...
2025-08-19 06:44:52 +0000 UTC
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The cameras started clicking before he even stepped out.
Gojo pushed through the curtain with his usual loose gait, hands stuffed in his pockets, and blindfold in place. The PRT had offered h...
2025-08-18 05:09:01 +0000 UTC
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It turned out to be easier than he’d expected.
Gojo had been bracing himself for some elaborate, drawn-out, and ultimately pointless, scheme: maybe weeks of reconnaissance; digging through ...
2025-08-15 06:40:26 +0000 UTC
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Despite what everyone thought—or said out loud if they were feeling particularly brave or particularly rude—Greg Veder knew he tended to do too much. No, scratch that. He knew he was t...
2025-08-14 12:19:29 +0000 UTC
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Getting a meeting with Carol Dallon turned out to be much harder than Clark first imagined.
The city’s mood was turning darker by the day. The PRT’s credibility had cracked heavily in the...
2025-08-13 07:53:24 +0000 UTC
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I was lying on my bed, thinking about my next step, when an idea for an original story suddenly hit me. My previous light novels hadn’t quite hit the mark, despite being sent to many editors, so ...
2025-08-12 17:56:58 +0000 UTC
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Greg had almost forgotten what Winslow smelled like: some unique blend of burnt coffee from the teachers’ lounge, industrial-strength cleaner that never quite masked the stale tang of sweat and g...
2025-08-12 07:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Finding Bakuda wasn’t the hard part.
Taylor’s eyes saw more than colors and images, and more than the not-so neat lines of concrete, brick, and steel that made up Brockton Bay. She saw be...
2025-08-12 05:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Taylor had told them she wasn’t reckless, and that was true. Shinobi didn’t win by charging in head-on; they won by shaping the battlefield, dictating its pace until the opponent danced to thei...
2025-08-11 09:44:47 +0000 UTC
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Sophia had been trying not to think about it all day. Emma’s reassurances had just been that: reassurances. Pretty, but ultimately meaningless and empty, words meant to soothe herself more than S...
2025-08-11 06:33:39 +0000 UTC
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Thank you to Dragonin for the only suggestion. The rest were made by me.
2025-08-10 08:55:30 +0000 UTC
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This is a bit late, but I want you guys to decide what Taylor’s next loop would be in the comment section. I'll pick the ones I like, and make a poll for it. Don't worry, I'll be the one to figur...
2025-08-09 10:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Anakin Skywalker leaned back in the booth of another 24-hour café, the blue-lit screen in front of him casting shifting shadows over his face. On the monitor, a cluttered browser window displayed ...
2025-08-08 07:36:32 +0000 UTC
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Clark Kent had once uncovered a multinational weapons ring that funneled stolen alien tech to warlords in South America. He’d written exposés on the dangerous amount of lead pipes in Metropolis'...
2025-08-07 08:28:33 +0000 UTC
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The unwritten rules were unwritten not because they were sacred or logical or anything even remotely close to fair, but because they were the thin, brittle glue keeping the world from ripping itsel...
2025-08-07 07:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Something was off.
Sophia Hess leaned back in her chair, arms lazily folded behind her head, and eyes fixed not on the whiteboard or the teacher droning on about whatever, but on the empty de...
2025-08-06 10:12:53 +0000 UTC
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Danny Hebert wasn’t a fool.
He might have spent the past two years stumbling through grief and paperwork, losing more sleep to his association disputes than he ever had to bedtime stories, ...
2025-08-06 08:12:30 +0000 UTC
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It was safe to say Taylor was relieved.
It wasn't to say that she was joyous, or even elated. Those emotions felt too distant, and too large for where she was now. After all, the truth was th...
2025-08-04 06:26:06 +0000 UTC
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Anakin Skywalker took another slow bite of his burger, chewing without tasting. His head remained bowed, just enough to stay out of direct line-of-sight of the other patrons. Fugly Bob’s wasn’t...
2025-08-02 07:47:41 +0000 UTC
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The amazing Marycorn over at Reddit just drew this fan art for Limitless. Ahhhhhhhh. Isn't it amazing? And she's planning on drawing another for The Honored One!!!! I can't wait to see it and show ...
2025-08-01 13:46:42 +0000 UTC
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