Dancing red-and-blue lights lit up the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel, a well manned police barricade blocking the entrance.  In fact, all traffic across the Hudson and East Rivers was suspended, leaving Manhattan in a state mandated quarantine.  High powered flood lights pointed from several angles into the city,  but none broke the eerily ( Read more... )

She sleeps a restless sleep, tossing and turning in her bed, trying her hardest to slip into that warm, rich blackness that is deep sleep, and yet unable to. It eludes her just as so many things in her life have continuously eluded her. Things like happiness. Things like love. Things like family ( Read more... )

As humans count the days, it has been over 3 years since Nightstar, Starfire, and Nightwing challenged Croutex to a duel in the Dreaming, ending at last in Destruction's intervention, though he had declined to resume control of his realm. Over 3 years since Dr. Fate bid the heroes of his universe to dream, and rebuild the order left tattered and ( Read more... )

by Perry White, Editor-in-ChiefMetropolis has been hard-hit in recent months, and the Science Police, the Fire Department, and even Superman seemed taxed near their limits. Part of this very building was destroyed in the rampage of 'Miracleman', a member of the Infinity Incorporated team. The toxic giant known as 'Chemo' contaminated several city ( Read more... )

There is a place beyond Reality ( Read more... )

 The mysterious vigilante known as the Fallen Angel has no thanks to give this year.

She hasn't had any thanks to give for a while now.

Her daughter is still lost somewhere in the time-space continuum. Her husband is forever lost to her, written out of existence by a series of events that no one besides herself is ever likely to remember.

As for the ( Read more... )

It's a day for giving ties, lawn equipment, and handheld power tools. It's a day for picnics, backyard cookouts, and afternoon naps.

It's Father's Day.

Bete Noire had disappeared ( Read more... )

One moment, she's in Bete Noire. The next, she's in the middle of the street in Leesburg, Virginia ( Read more... )

Gemma had gone back to help the others fight, but there wasn't going to be any winning against the city if it didn't want them to be let go. Even Fate would eventually be worn down by it...even with the new weird things going on with him and what exactly was up with Hector anyway ( Read more... )