Author: Adam

The Double Cross, Part Twelve

Continued from Part Eleven Sariah Miller sat beside her husband’s empty hospital bed. “Jesse, what would you do?” “How touchingly melodramatic,” a raspy voice said. Sariah turned. The Human Muscle stood in the door, a whole 600 pounds of bone-crushing power. His emblem, a large bicep, flexed on his red spandex leotard. Sariah stood. “How…

Zero, Part Five

Continued from Part Four The flight attendant lunged. Snyder kicked him in the stomach and delivered an upper cut to the jaw that sent him sprawl-ing. The flight attendant gasped. “How did you know?” “Your thumb ring had the same em-blem as the psycho air marshal’s wallet and that lady’s purse.” The flight attendant laughed….

The Double Cross, Part Eleven

Continued from Part Ten The Sword tapped his blade on the yellow sand as the entire surviving pop-ulation of the hero colony stood at the pen-insula five miles from camp. “All right, Revolution, you told us that you and Pan-theon had figured out where everyone had disappeared to. So let’s have it.” “Tarantula King, come…

Zero, Part Four

Continued from Part Three Snyder opened his eyes. His saluting elbow had landed in his seatmate’s face. The middle-aged business man sitting next to Snyder said, “I’ve heard you guys could do your job in your sleep, but this is ridiculous.” Snyder put his arm down. “Excuse me.” He got up and slipped into the…

The Double Cross, Part Ten

Continued from Part Nine The motorcycle sputtered and died. It’d been a few days since DJ had completed his hero basic training and to show him he was part of the team, Captain Justice had decided to let DJ pick out their vehicle. Big mistake. Captain Justice said, “Okay, I’m tak-ing this back to the…