Project ROWDY 2-27A

AUGUST 2023 The pressure of the earth itself compacted tight against his body as soil packed itself into his mouth, the taste of ash, vaporized copper and long-powdered bone stale on his tongue. The being known as Yǒng Zhé did not breathe, China’s Eternal Breaker never needing something as simple as air. His needs were…

Cecil’s office smelled like old war and colder secrets. Steel walls, lightless corners, glass that didn’t reflect. Brick could tell with an idle look around the place that Cecil didn’t allow any surveillance in here. Which meant there was nothing keeping him from speaking the truth but his own choice. No cameras, no recorders, just…

Big Ben stood in the distance, proud, dumb, and oblivious as it’d been since the day it was completed.  Then something struck it, stone and steel coughing outward in a massive explosion.  Faces turned toward the sound, not the blast—nobody reacts to the source first, they react to the first scream. A banker’s knees gave…

Too smooth for something moving this fast, Donny Ferguson couldn’t help it as he shifted his weight from foot to foot in the high-speed elevator.  He couldn’t help it, all the static under the skin lately making it hard to ease up like he normally did when he was around this much cool and high-powered…

Laying on his bed, Mark Grayson stared down at his physics textbook and tried not to think too much about his physics teacher. Actually, ex-physics teacher. Or actually actually, his late physics teacher. The one who’d gone super-villain last week. The one who’d turned the cool kids into cyborg suicide bombs. The one who suicide…

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