La Belleza or A Conversation in Northern Spain By Castor inspired by Guy de Mupassant and JessP There are pleasures in one life. Good food, good drink, good temperature(an under looked consideration sometimes), Good company, Good sensual data(meaning sights sounds), and sensual meaning the other kind. Eric Robbere of the last 4 years had devoted himself largely to accumulating these. He had ...

There can be no mistake. No mistake whatsoever! This is no fantasy, no childish delusion. Professor Splatter is behind this attack of evil robots Mr. Stupendous declared, hands on hips. Gee-wilikers! said his sidekick the Red Rocket. She looked side to side. We have to find him! said Stupendous. Cut off the brain and the head will follow. Mr stupendous was an older man with greying hair under ...

It was a cold night in Gotham. Not a freezing night but a cold one. Gotham had periods of snow, but usually by the time it snowed a second time it had melted in a haze. There wasn’t snow. But it was cold. Cold to the bone. Batman’s suit was designed to withstand a fair amount of cold … but some nights, he just wanted a cup of cocoa and a warm bed. He had a suit actually design specifically for ...

PHOENIX AT THE ASHES By Castor (with special thanks to Dru1076 for editing and proofreeding) Her husband had once asked her if she could see Mecca as she prayed. It was a foolish question. As she prostrated herself before Allah each day she could see straight. But the world was round. The angles of the earth meant that her super-powered eyes would go over the horizon into outer space. Mecca, as ...

Humanity. Am I right you know? What a miserable bunch of assholes. There’s the big stuff: War, Famine, Poverty. Also Racism, Sexism any other ism you want-and boy do they have all of em. If there is a method they can be different from one another they will latch on it with hatred and vile that its hard to comprehend. They Are petty and selfish to the extreme. And that’s just the biggies. Go on ...