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 struggled with this one, since one of the primary characters is somewhat difficult to portray. This story is an exercise in developing the kind of characters that fill out the background and mythos of a world, as opposed to the protagonist the story itself follows.
The setting is very similar to “The 64th.”
For something slight different, I tried to portray exposition in a word-of-mouth style while the story itself goes on. Think old man telling the village children a ghost story over the fire.
I also attempted to make the hybrids’ contrast between humanity and monstrosity both as natural and as stark as possible. Horror and gore really aren’t my strong suits, but I tried to carry them through an otherwise action-oriented story.
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 second chapter. Not a lot of our actual protagonist until near the end, but I still try to establish her character more through Heron’s eyes even when she’s absent. I also want to drive home exactly what sort of person Mildred has managed to earn the loyalty of. I try to keep the humor going even when the story takes a turn for the dramatic.
I wrote this on a whim. One-part Power Rangers parody, one-part super hero alter ego joke.
Near and Far 