I cleaned up a couple more of my old short stories.
It Was Just a Little Scrap, Really
I actually revised the latter yesterday, but I didn’t want to make a post for just one story. “It was Just a Little Scrap, Really,” is one of the first stories I posted here. The very first of my super hero works on here, even if it wasn’t the first one I wrote. It isn’t the first time I updated it either, but it needed it.
Took the time to clean up a few old short stories while I’m working on other projects. Expect a few more revisions in the days/weeks ahead.
Some Heroes are Born, Some are Made, and Others Sort of Fall Into It
The A-List, Ladies and Gentlemen
They all happen to be from my “Heroes and Villains” universe, where I equal parts satirize and delight in the tropes of super hero fiction.
The debut of Cole and Dog as superheroes, or at least vigilantes with super powers. I tried my hand at designed super hero costumes, but there’s more than one reason I’m writing short stories and not drawing comics. I also put down their alter egos down for the first time…sort of.
I’ve ended up explaining my answers to super hero tropes a lot more than I was expecting when I started writing about this universe. I still like to think of this series as a satire, though. Anyway, this marks the end of Cole and Dog’s introduction, so from now on my stories with them may jump around the timeline a bit. As always, I hope you enjoy it.
I still suffer writer’s block for the bigger project I’m working on. In the meantime, I wrote this little piece to flesh our my world of super heroes. Pseudo-Sci-Fi is all well and good, but how many heroes and villains owe their origins to straight up magic?
It’s short, but I tried to play around with a different narrative style here. Of course, no work of mine is complete without a little banter. We even see a returning character! Sort of.
A continuation of Dog and Cole’s story. Every hero has to have a costume. This is the second part of my plan to introduce the concept of a larger world around the heroes. It’s still meant to be funny, sort of toeing the line of satire. But there is more than one kind of satire, too…
Another shorty story in the same world as Dog and Cole. However, here I introduce a couple of the “A-list” heroes going about their day-to-day lives. An attempt to combine funny and cool. I tried to satirize a couple super hero cliches here, but it might take another story or two for that to be obvious. Or maybe I’m not nearly as subtle as I think I am.
The beginning of my take on the super hero genre. Something of a parody. I introduce the world through the back-story of a new hero. Future short stories (or episodes) will include different different heroes. Expect a sprawling cast, eventually.
I wrote this on a whim. One-part Power Rangers parody, one-part super hero alter ego joke.
Near and Far 