A Witchy Halloween By Shadar Finish time: 29th of October, 2021, 17:04 Zulu (10:04 PST) Written for the 2021 SWM Halloween Workshop Prologue Halloween Eve in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA It was late afternoon when Jeremy opened the doors to the barn where he kept his grandpa’s old pickup truck. It was a 1947 Chevy that his grandpa had bought new, and which had been lovingly restored by his father befo ...

This is the story of an epic battle between the forces of good and evil. Between the unrestrained superpowers of two extraterrestrial races: the Arions and the Velorians, both members of the genetically-engineered Homo Sapiens Supremis race. A race that once-upon-a-time was human. Mandi Olsen is an Arion Betan living secretly on Earth as part of an Arion advance team. Her job, along with many oth ...

A Dark SuperGirl Arises - Part Three By Shadar and Tex Beethoven (Revision: 14) (Originally drafted in 1995 for the Aurora Universe. Updated in 2012.) Chapter Eight Absolute power is absolutely corrupting. I thought of Kara again, suddenly feeling guilty that Id let this get away from me without calling her. I was putting pride ahead of duty, ahead even of the lives of the people of this world. K ...

A Dark SuperGirl Arises - Part Five By Shadar and Tex Beethoven (Revision: 18) (Originally drafted in 1995 for the Aurora Universe. Updated in 2012.) Chapter Eleven The coastline of central California… Mandi flew down the coastline at what had already become a leisurely pace for her -- Mach 2 -- heading for Vandenburg AFB. Shed been to the campground near there at Point Conception several times, ...

Desert Rat by Shadar Published version 1.5 If aliens do live secretly on Earth, most likely they are living out there in the emptiness of the American southwestern desert. A region where almost everyone has seen things in the clear night skies that defy explanation. This is a story about one peculiar encounter in Moffat County, somewhere in the high desert. Lola Montez was a desert rat. There wer ...