Simon's been very busy since meeting his new friend.   What should have been a few days of Trap-the-Hobo has turned into a seemingly unending series of errands to run.   A  veritable theatre of make-up and clothing, stolen mostly from the handful of sleazy Halloween stores occupying temporary storefronts downtown.  Harvey's muggings.  Medical ( Read more... )

    Early twilight is the best time to be downtown for Simon.  Late enough that the sun's left the streets, too early for the cheap neon to flicker and glare.  The small young man waits on a street-corner, affecting nonchalance but chewing at his lip, averting his eyes from the headlights of the occasional car.  His shades dangle loosely from his ( Read more... )

He forces himself to walk at a natural pace, head down. His arm is starting to hurt in a way he can't quite ignore, not even with the exhilaration of what he'd just done ( Read more... )

Poison Ivy has spent quite some time dedicating herself to her latest project, so to speak. First she analysed the blood sample she took from the luckier of the two men at the park (if one could call living to be interrogated by the Batman lucky, at least) and found that it contained traces of a chemical compound - a unique little combination that ( Read more... )

( missed you, catch you later? )

The Scarecrow wasn't in Robinson Park that night. He hadn't filled several containers with gasoline from different gas stations and carried them through the gates into the darkness. Nor did he leave two would-be muggers knocked out — merely knocked out, not twitching in a pile of their own appalling neuroses — behind him. He certainly did not ( Read more... )

Though the night is close to stifling within the city limits, he's wearing a jacket with a cheap glock stuffed in the pocket. All the way over, he'd watched Mike Engel professionally freak out over the latest sicko news to hit Gotham's airwaves on his cellphone, thinking of nothing much at all. Curiosity, paranoia. Existential outrage. The usual. ( Read more... )

There's always something or another going on in Gotham. This particular something isn't a huge event, but the Gotham Summer Craft Fair has been held in this particular park near downtown for eight years, now, every August! It's a quiet diversion, nothing flashy, nothing that you can't find in any city, but a great chance to pick up some sun ( Read more... )