At the Heart of the Night by Furlough All within the room looked on with a sense of uneasy anticipation as the small craft's door opened. If asked, none of them would be able to give a very thorough or convincing account of what they were doing there. They knew very little about the affair. All except one. She had been the one to bring them there, after all. But beyond her influence and their own ...

Covetous or, The Girl Who Loved Power by Furlough. Part 1: Discovery Before the incident, no one had heard of Lizzie Starkey. She had just been a boring, ordinary high school student; the sort you’d find no matter what sort of schools you looked in. An otherwise unremarkable girl whose only outstanding traits were her reliability in obtaining straight-A grades, and her cuteness, which was decided ...

Better late than never, right? ***** Cassie acted as fast as she possibly could. She had no idea what she would find, but she knew that it had to be hers. Had she just heard about what had happened earlier, she would probably have chuckled scornfully to herself and left it at that. But she had seen what the others had looked like; she could not deny the changes that had taken place. She knew not ...

The Bounty of Her Discovery by Furlough The door swiftly swung open, showing the way into the lab on the topmost floor of the science faculty's central building. The place seemed fairly empty, with the stillness of the air being interrupted only by the hurried panting of the girl standing at the lab's entrance, but that sound was soon accompanied by a cry coming from further within: “Come on in, ...

1 Superman owed a favour to an old friend, who as it happened was an increasingly enthusiastic feminist. She became involved with an organisation that advocated for women's rights. A yearly convention was on the horizon and she decided to go along to a planning meeting. Many subjects were on the agenda, from which venue to hold it at, to how to maximise their sponsorship opportunities and finally ...