erotica

  • Libra, on Valentine’s Day

    Libra addresses the world at an ASALEA press conference on February 15, 2041: the day after the Valentine’s Day tragedy at Philadelphia.  Yesterday was a tragedy. I don’t think that I need to tell any of you that. Millions of lives were lost. Though we at ASALEA managed to prevent the anomaly from spreading across

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  • What Else Was There To Do?

    On the horizon, the city burned. Leo watched the flames rage and bit his nails. He wasn’t sure how the fire had started. Kaiju didn’t make fire, only steam, and there were plenty of pyrokinetic supes in the fray, but nobody who could start something on this scale. Maybe some electrical lines went down, or-

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  • Brightest Night

    The woman, glowing with a pale golden light, floated above the city of Fukuoka and looked down over it, surveying the destruction. It was horrifying. At least a quarter of the city was completely leveled. You could visually trace the path the monster had taken: it had broken shore a ways west of the city

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  • Blackest Day

    CW: animal abuse, child abuse Kyle Fredrickson looked down at his hands. They were not particularly interesting hands. They were boring, even: lightly calloused from his years of work as a bartender, a few freckles on the backs, and some wispy brown hair on the backs of the knuckles. He clenched both hands into a

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  • Because We Failed

    Delivered at the United Nations Headquarters on July 12, 2031 in response to the public emergence of Heracles as the first hero and the fallout from the Switch. This speech announced the creation of Aegis and would become (in)famous as the start of the first Age of Heroes. People of Earth, I am sure that

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  • Prologue Jules The click of the woman’s high heels echoed through the empty halls as she rushed across the dimly lit laboratory. Her destination was the receiver room on the other side of the lab. She had just gotten a call that, if it were true, would change the world yet again. The woman was

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  • It began, as so many things do, with an accident. The shuttle was first detected just outside the orbit of Jupiter. It was drifting aimlessly, seemingly as though it had been on course for something and had run out of fuel. The pilot was gone, perhaps ejected in a desperate, but ultimately futile attempt to

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