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Coda, Chapter One
Days had passed since Joe returned from the realm of his subconsciousness, re-enacting The Four Heroes’ epochal journey from Boston to Nottingham in a manner brought wholly up to date with his present circumstances. That notwithstanding, and for all that he and his companions this time had been spread out across two spaceships traversing half the galaxy, the resemblances could not but feel timely to Joe when waiting for him at his destination was a multitude of Mini-Flashes and other sentient beings to whom that original pilgrimage meant something.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
I Miss the Power
So the year will have been 2016. In my part of China the last thunderstorms of summer come with a vengeance, and we'd had one that stripped the university of power the very night before orientation. So this occidental (the pun is barely acceptable so I'll only make it once) awoke to the prospect of welcoming hundreds of fresh-faced freshmen to a campus bereft of electricity.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Education
Exodus, Chapter Five
The staring gawping tableau included Mini-Flash Pseudangelos, who looked as if she’d been just about to leave. Gladness flooded Joe’s weary frame. He didn’t wait to catch his breath, but launched at once into what was not destined to be his finest speech. When he had at length mistreated his overtaxed lungs into giving out, not even our hero was sure anymore whether the explanation had had to do with a published apology for responses sent in error, or some sort of mix-up in the mail. All Joe hoped was that his fabrications had convinced Pseudangelos the letter Presh was holding aloft was not the same one as before, for all that the resemblance was striking.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
Exodus, Chapter Four
Joe knew the world inside his mind had meant a great deal to Presh. It was one of the few points about her he had managed to gather. Losing Robin and falling foul of Schiss-Zazz may have taken the charm off the place for some, but studying Presh’s features Joe detected no suggestion of that. Now he wondered what he was going to do with this most wayward of Mini-Flashes. What was it that had led Presh from The Flash Club to him in the first place? It seemed a baffling choice, knowing as Joe did she had loved that land devoid of The Four Heroes’ cause.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
Exodus, Chapter Three
Along the echoing cavernous deck Joe slowly struggled. It was true that his last encounter with Presh might have suggested he was no better suited for this task than those in whose stead he’d appointed himself, yet our hero reminded himself that neither he nor she had been themselves then, and her harshness Joe had already put down to the side-effects of the schism.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
Exodus, Chapter Two
Once Sonica was all hooked-up to the ship’s own life-support apparatus, Joe stopped by the medical bay himself and changed the dressings that had come out of the first-aid box in his kitchen for new ones from the supplies. Concerns about certain girls accidentally showing more of themselves than anybody needed to see hadn’t made him forget that without this precaution he’d end up doing the same, in a far less picturesque manner and all over the floor to boot. That danger averted, and cargo and crew securely onboard, our hero shuffled slowly to the bridge.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
