Fire in the Hole (Superhero Black Hole, part 137)
We attached the explosives to the four corners of the Grid window with some clay-like bluish-grey putty. Al had upended the couch; using it and the cushions we…
Heart-to-Heart (Superhero Black Hole, part 136)
I looked around at everyone in the room, their frightened stares piercing me. I could feel myself becoming less calm with every passing moment, and knowing how…
The Big Bang (Superhero Black Hole, part 135)
“Hasten the arrival of the unknown assailants, and likely hasten our demise,” interjected Al from across the room. “We don’t know that they’re coming to kill…
Grasping at Straws (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 134)
Zowie and the others had been discussing our surely-impending doom for a couple minutes now, but I was paying them no mind. Despite all the guns and other…
The One Who Knocks (Superhero Black Hole, part 133)
Back in our main hub of activity, we all stood staring up into the grid, witnessing the electric blue lines fizzling out one by one. Darkness lay behind the…
I Do Have Weapons (Superhero Black Hole, part 132)
Al pressed his palm against a scanning plate, held his eye up to a retina scan modified specifically for him and then traced his finger, from top to bottom…
Closing In (Superhero Black Hole, part 131)
As Al lead us all to the weapons storage area - (because of course we have a weapons storage area) - Tsering asked him: “What is going on?” If we had a…
Not So Routine (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 130)
Tsering and I passed a lot of time lying on the couches, relating the stories of our lives to each other. Turns out I actually had a few albums he’d produced…
Mind the Adage (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 129)
Al often comes across like a robot, but every once in a while he’ll do something that reminds you that he is actually a human being. Like earlier, how I’d…
ཁྱེད་ཪང་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 128)
In some areas of the world there are reports of people living over a century—in some cases, well over that. You get this stuff from, say, the Caucasus or South…
Isolate (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 127)
Zowie grabbed some sort of iPad-like device and apparently told it to get us some Cokes, because a few seconds later a brief tone sounded in the back of the…
Alter-Naming (Superhero Black Hole, part 126)
Cut to: Just over an hour later. Me and the Zoes had all showered-- (NOT TOGETHER, Zoe (the original (and best?) has hastened me to add) --and were now seated…
HQ (Superhero Black Hole, part 125)
That was the ceiling being not so much a ceiling, but rather a seemingly endless criss-crossing matrix of glowing blue circuits - or wires, or whatever …
Awesomeness (Superhero Black Hole, part 124)
If ever there had been another moment in my life where the sound of an angelic chorus signifying the awesomeness of a sight I beheld could have been more…
Double Vision (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 123)
Zoe smiled, her eyebrows arching. “Still with us, I see.” “Uhhhhhh…” I grunted. Zoe stepped out from behind me and wagged a finger at Zoe. “Is this some kind…
Breakthrough (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 122)
We rested for awhile. Al said he had to do some fiddling around with stuff and went into the projector room. He was kind enough to play for us some film from…
Knot Theory (Superhero Black Hole, Pt. 118)
“But…” I stammered, “…um…wha—?” Zoe, however, had had both the exact same thought as I and fuller control of her vocal and mental faculties. “Whatever do you…
Silver Lining (Superhero Black Hole, part 117)
“And this is a good thing?,” Zoe said, half-sarcastically, half-seriously. “It can only mean that the plan is working,” Al said. “And what is the endgame?,” I…
Diabolic (Superhero Black Hole, part 116)
My mind was racing and spinning in my skull as I tried to digest just how diabolical Letrodacta really was. I had always known that that oddly named woman was…
Originally... (Superhero Black Hole, part 115)
Zoe was much more curious than I was to know the answer to her next question for Al. “What happened originally? Before Future him threw all these spanners in…