The city was quieter tonight, or maybe Taylor was just too angry to hear the usual chaos. Or maybe—more likely, it only seemed quiet because most people were too afraid to leave their ho...
2025-08-01 08:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor was done.
Not with life—she wasn’t ready to cross that line yet—but she was done with everything else. Done with the endless whispered insults that made her dread walkin...
2025-08-01 06:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostShe should’ve felt relieved.
Instead, Taylor stared out the grimy third-story window of the abandoned office building she’d chosen as a temporary lookout and felt... annoyed. She shifted ...
2025-07-31 06:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in ABB territory was always a little heavier.
Greg couldn’t tell if it was the ever-present cloying scent of smoke from burn barrels, the broken streetlamps that bathed everything i...
2025-07-30 07:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt should have been something Gojo did a while ago.
Be it a conversation or whatever you wanted to call it, it was one of those boring, sensible, and painfully bureaucratic things th...
2025-07-29 08:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe casket descended slowly, the winch groaning as it fed the lowering straps inch by inch. It was an ugly sound—mechanical, oddly strained, and too final—and it made Taylor want to sc...
2025-07-28 17:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostOutside Taylor’s bedroom, the wind rattled against her windowpane from behind her curtains, but inside the small, dim space, there was only the weak glow of her desk lamp and the faint scratches ...
2025-07-27 06:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostEmily Piggot stood at the broad window in her office, looking down over the modest sprawl of downtown Brockton Bay. The city had always been a mess, fractured by politics, strangled by corruption, ...
2025-07-26 04:43:40 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor walked down the halls of Winslow, her steps even but without urgency. Her arms hung limply at her sides—neither clenched in tension nor relaxed in ease—and her shoes squeaked faintly on ...
2025-07-25 06:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe curtains were open and the rays of the morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, casting pale beams across the worn flooring and catching the fine dust motes that danced in the still air...
2025-07-24 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere had never been a time when Ultraman existed without a directive. From the first breath drawn into his cloned lungs, his purpose had been absolute: obey without hesitation; strike without merc...
2025-07-24 07:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostBeep-beep-beep.
With a series of mental jerks and nods, the world came back to Taylor in pieces. Her eyes, heavy and rusty, creaked open a fraction at the repetitive beeping of her s...
2025-07-21 08:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind had quieted, and the rooftop had long since emptied. Yet Gojo Satoru remained behind.
He sat on the helipad now, long legs stretched out before him, arms braced behind as he leaned b...
2025-07-21 06:54:22 +0000 UTC View PostAnakin knew what he was doing was reckless and dangerous, maybe even delusional.
Without the Force, without its constant presence guiding his instincts and sharpening his reactions, he was ju...
2025-07-20 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostGojo stood at the edge of the PRT Headquarters’ rooftop helipad, overlooking Lord Street. His hands were tucked into his coat pockets, and the late-morning sun warmed the back of his neck. His bl...
2025-07-19 10:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe average man would have panicked. Would have called it quits the moment the girl slipped through his fingers and into the PRT’s open arms.
But Thomas Calvert was not the average man.
... 2025-07-18 09:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor Hebert woke up at 4:37 AM.
The numbers on her alarm clock burned into her vision like a brand, but she didn’t scream. She didn’t even move. She simply lay there, eyes open, staring...
2025-07-17 08:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe hallway between periods was only half-full, filled with scattered conversation, lockers shutting and opening, and the slap of sneakers on tile. Taylor kept her head down, books clutched tightly...
2025-07-17 07:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostHoping the universe would just hand her an opportunity to be a hero?
Yeah, that was foolish.
Taylor crouched on the edge of a rooftop across from a shuttered gas station, peering up at ...
2025-07-16 09:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostGreg stood in the kitchen doorway, heart hammering like a jackhammer in his chest. His mom sat at the table in her robe, nursing a steaming mug of tea while flipping through a dog-eared copy of
Bakuda was a genius.
She didn’t say that in the way most people did, casually as a brag whenever they accomplished something difficult. No, she meant it in the most literal, quantifiable se...
2025-07-15 08:35:42 +0000 UTC View PostCoil wasn’t stupid.
He liked to believe that, above all else—above charm, above ruthlessness, above cunning—his intelligence was what had kept him alive and in the game this long....
2025-07-15 05:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostPeople talked.
It was one of the few certainties in Brockton Bay. Streets whispered secrets faster than any signal, and Anakin Skywalker was far too visible now. A name as ridiculous as that ...
2025-07-14 08:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnakin had expected whispers eventually.
Cities like this one had a way of passing stories faster than bullets. Still, he hadn’t expected them to reach here so quickly.
The b...
2025-07-12 08:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor woke to sunlight.
Not darkness, not the sweltering heat of a confined space, and not the choking stench of rot filling her lungs with every breath.
Sunlight.
It...
2025-07-11 07:25:52 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor had meant to be alone.
After the meeting with Armsmaster, she had wandered the halls with no destination in mind, her thoughts too loud to settle. A small part of her expected someone ...
2025-07-11 05:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe gym was quiet in the late afternoon, lit only by weak bands of orange sunlight slanting through the high windows. The usual sounds of Wi
The gym was quiet in the late afternoon, lit only ...
2025-07-10 08:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post