Woman of the Cave of Three Shadows A Tale by Castor Long ago in China lived an old man named Lou Rock. He was a farmer of some standing in his village. His neighbors would be humbled by his fields, his barns – but really he lived as precarious as they did, as year to year was the whims of the harvest. His apparent success a subject of constant worry, much like themselves. His wife had died severa ...

A Gift of the Future by Shadar November 25, 2018 A story written for those who remember, or want to get to know, the original Kara Zor-El from the comic book universe. The first Kara Zor-El in the comics was the version of the character that I grew up with in the 60’s. DC decided to kill her off in 1985, but I asked myself the question... what if she'd lived on? Not as a reboot or a retconned ver ...

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, ...