Power Girl By Shadar Just a quicky little vignette about my idea for PG’s bold new outfit. Jimmy Olson stood behind the most powerful woman on Earth, watching her as she stared through the Venetian blinds at the crowd gathering outside. Her short blonde hair glistened in the filtered sunlight. “I know you’re tired of people staring at the cutout in your costume, Karen, but don’t you think this is ...

Chapter Three I turned to study the tree line, looking for the predators she’d mentioned, but didn’t see anything in the growing shadows. Clearly her eyes were a lot better than mine. “Hold onto me,” she said, speaking urgently now. “Quickly!” I hesitated, knowing how painful a Sulpter field is to touch, only to have a chorus of snarling growls and howls break out behind me. Turning, I saw a pack ...

Chapter 7 Danya guided us through a dozen short, unnamed streets on our way to the ship. They make the streets in these tiny outposts deliberately complex, supposedly to make the place feel bigger than it is. All I know is that between the buzz and the booze, I got lost almost immediately, but Danya seemed to know exactly where she was going, her eyes sparkling as she looked this way and that. Th ...

Red-headed Devil By Shadar Chapter One James Byson cowered behind a low, rock wall as the Nazi Tiger tank rumbled and clanked into the tiny, remote village in the Ukraine. He covered his ears as the tank fired at the smattering of organized resistance, its shells blasting apart the low buildings that protected the rabble of freedom fighters. Men armed with antique weapons and pitchforks stood no ...

StarTroopers Episode Five by Shadar Kedrik met up with me at lunch to say that Engineering had signed the ship off for atmospheric flight, but he wanted some more time to work on environmentals before we went into space. I decided to take just the flight crew on our first attempt to fly, and I wasn’t going to let them assume their stations until Roci was a couple miles away from the hangar and ou ...