How To Be a Super-Villain {an origin story}

"All these stories - they tell tales about how the heroes will have to choose between their lover and the safety of the world, and yet the happy endings always manage to make it into the final cut. They choose the lover - they always do - and then together, the hero and the lover saves the world. They always do. These...

Searching for stars

My father sat me down at nine years old and told me that my mother was going away. Like always I was quiet, I didn't ask the questions that were spinning around in my head, picking up memories and ripping them apart like a hurricane. All I said was ok, I had a million questions but I didn't want to hear the answer to...