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Umbra – Defender of the Equinox
Umbra “Get up, boy.” His voice was rough, like a heavy smoker, husky with a slight country twang. “Get up, we have to go now. Where is your father?” “He didn’t make it. Who the hell are you?” I tried...
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Kali Bodhisattva, Slayer of Monsters
Excerpt from Dark Star Rising: Kali summoned her spirit swords and began the ritual dance of power. Tapping the energies unique to this plane, she bound its power to hers. She felt the lives of The...
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The Occultist – Sorcerer & Summoner of Demons
Excerpt from Dark Star Rising: Meanwhile, Thornton Oswald III completed his summoning ritual with the King of Netherbeasts. Grimmammon took the form of a great cat of immense size. “Grimmammon, I...
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Race: The Mariovel – Planet Creators
The Planet Traders Our ship dropped out of the Gate inside of Mariovel space. Corvan battlefleets patrolled the system but acknowledged our IFF transponders and allowed us to continue into the...
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Centurion Vedius Calvus – Roman Champion
Dark God’s Gambit Two empires waged an epic war for four hundred years. They raised mighty armies, one wild, savage, filled with monsters, both human and those from the Dark World. The other, fought...
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30 Characters in 30 Days – A Veritable Feast
30 Characters in 30 Days has proven to be a beast of a challenge. Especially because I am NOT AN ARTIST. I am a WRITER, so the challenge for me was to create interesting characters, biographies or...
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Praxis
a tale of the twilight continuum Shubert cupped his hands over his cyborg ears; the rumbling in the city’s throat was seismic and desperate. The ground shook as Theriopolis uprooted itself, and...
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Hub City Blues – 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 18,000 views in 2012....
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Rebirth: John Stewart of Earth (1)
My name is John Stewart. I am Green Lantern of sector 2814. Wait, let me rephrase that. I am one of four Green Lanterns for this sector. The best known is Hal Jordan, the most obnoxious is Guy Gardner,...
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 20,000...
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Welcome to Hub City Blues!
Welcome to Hub City Blues, a character database I am creating for the 30 Character Challenge. This contest is designed to foster creativity in artists and writers to create new character designs. The...
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Thomas Wilks – Codename: Majoris
Thomas Wilks is a member of Pan-humanity – the collective of races that escaped Earth in the year 2475 having been rescued by the Sjurani during the Great Exodus of Man. The fate of Earth is currently...
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Essver Dream-Singer – Warrior Poet
Name: Essver Dream-Singer, of the People of the Sjurani, son of Minru, son of Daor the Terrible, warrior-poet of Harata II, Sjurani Rex, mated to the nǚgōngjué the Glorious Pielienhis (pe-le-en-hiss)....
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Dr. James Eckyl – Mastermind
Name: James Eckyl VI – Biochemist, industrialist, philanthropist, eco-conservationist Alias: Dr. Jeckyl, James the Sixth, Six Age: 45 Height: 6.5 feet tall Current weight: 275 pounds, Hair: None Eyes:...
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Ms. Hart – Defender of the Equinox
Historical Excerpt: “The Hell Hart, that was what she was called over two hundred years ago. Two centuries ago, no one would have believed she would be tending someone near to death, praying for their...
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Shango the Thunderer – Thunder God, Superhero
Name: Shango the Thunderer Other Alias: Xangô or Changó. Human host: Aganju Kinufu Height: 6 feet in human form, 7 feet transformed Weight: 225 human, 450 lbs transformed History: In the Yorùbá...
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Judira Corm Hex-aka – Tortured Scientist
Our world is a silent one. Not by choice, but by necessity. There can be no waste, not a breath, not a sound, not an echo. We communicate with sound but our walls recollect that sonic energy, our...
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Outside (Review: Ultimates #3)
Ultimates Assemble! Oy! In Ultimates #3 we are reintroduced to our team of perhaps the mightiest Avengers ever. Nope, not taking that back. I have followed the Avengers for forty years and no team in...
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Ecstasy as the Deepest Level of Aesthetic Purity: The 7 Levels of Aesthetic...
Originally posted on The Lagomorph People: The discussion of value of a particular narrative too often misidentifies rhetoric or realism as the sole factor placing a text at a high (or the highest)...
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Does anyone notice that his/her quality of writing diminishes through the...
Answer by Thaddeus Howze: Quality may have taken a hit. But that's not the problem. It's your enthusiasm you have to worry about. When you started, you were filled with the zeal of a new idea, a tale...
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How can I get over the fact I am going to die?
Answer by Thaddeus Howze: Lean into it. Did you think you would be exempt from the very thing that makes the Human experience meaningful? Let's Imagine the alternative… Let's imagine you were Immortal,...
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Review: Ultimates #1
Chekov’s Gun and ISO-8 *Article and un-review contains spoiler potential materials, proceed with caution. What’s not to love about Ultimates #1? Minority superheroes? Check. Bad-ass minority...
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The Care & Feeding of Galactus (Review: Ultimates #2)
In this second issue of the Ultimates, Marvel’s most powerful team of Avengers, we learn a secret of the enigmatic and terrifying force of Nature, the mighty Galactus. When we last left this ultimate...
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Announcing Top Writers 2016
Hi Thaddeus, Congratulations! You’ve been named as a Quora Top Writer for 2016. You should see a red Top Writer icon on your profile page that indicates you are part of the most recent class of Quora...
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How Smart is Superman?
As generally written? As smart as a loaf of bread. His intellectual capacity varies widely depending on who’s writing him. But that’s not his fault. He’s afflicted with Plot Induced Stupidity at least...
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