Satire
Etched in Stone
I'm a boomer. I vote. I mind the thermostat, keeping the temp just shy of Goldilocksian just rightness. I'm a boomer. While growing up, the holocaust was still a societal fresh memory. And a couple of atom bombs. And imminent nuclear war, whose threat, ironically, has reared its ugly head again.
By Gerard DiLeo3 years ago in Fiction
The Serum
"And you really think this will work?" Mark Denver, as CEO of a floundering pharmaceutical company, needed to hear an emphatic "Yes!" from his researchers in order to be able to sleep well again. If what they had achieved was real, then this would revolutionise obesity management in the health sector forever. And he would reap the rewards: fame, money, success. He could feel the benefits padding his life out already.
By Rachel Deeming3 years ago in Fiction
"Hombres" Managing "Hambre"
Recently, I had great honor to both participate in and lead a session of a writing retreat for a group of extremely talented and creative students - writers and editors of a college newspaper. The retreat was in an art museum and for my session I had them go out into the museum, take a picture of an artifact (most of them ended up with paintings, but there were a couple of sculptures as well) and write down a short caption for the picture about the artifact or a sentence that would help them later build a story.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Fiction
DVU's SledgeHammer: The Hunt For Leatherface
Chapter 1: Origins In the bustling city of Gotham, there lived a man named Cameron Ford. By day, he was a mild-mannered private detective, but by night, he transformed into the powerful superhero known as SledgeHammer. Cameron possessed the superhuman abilities of both Superman and Wolverine – strength, invulnerability, rapid healing, and razor-sharp claws. His mission was to protect the innocent and bring justice to those who threatened the peace. Cameron had also come from another universe which is called The Dark Universe where he fought all sorts of demons and vampires in a world without superheroes which led him through many fights and enemies like Mickey Maguire, a superhuman killing machine that went on a murder spree in Canada then he would take on the Devil's First Born son, Antony Valor which would lead through the Gates Of Hell where he would fight legendary slashers and a horde of undead just to get to him because of the events in the Violent One's story. He would be victorious in that fight but he would have to fight Valor's father, Lucifer which would be the ultimate fight of his life.
By Victor Robinson II3 years ago in Fiction
