This was supposed to be a tense, dramatic piece where an injured Batman is stalked in his cave by a psychotic Superman. But when I tried to explain to my Batman-muse that he was going to be attacked by a mind-controlled Superman, he yawned and said, "Must be Tuesday."

Barbarian

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I've gone recursive! It's fanfic of a fanfic, set with her permission in ( Read more... )

The concept of a girl with wings is unabashedly stolen from one of my older sister's stories back when I was in middle school. Shortly after stealing her, though, she morphed into an unmanageable Mary Sue, which was fine for my middle-school experimentation but seems boring now. So I kept the wings and the mind-mages but ditched the girl; maybe she ( Read more... )

This is a piece I started writing in 2007, directly after visiting German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin. The museum was right beside the square where many of Colonel von Stauffenberg's co-conspiritors were executed after a failed assassination attempt on Hitler (the same one documented in the movie "Valkyrie"). It's not a piece of historical ( Read more... )