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Running With Scissors by Sam_le_fou
Running With Scissors
Sam_le_fou
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  • Parts 44
Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Peter Katz hires a hitman to take him out. But when a cure is discovered, Peter's got to outrun the assassin to stay alive! ***** When douchebag lawyer Peter Katz gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wants to die painlessly. Still, death seems to elude his every attempt, so he hires an assassin to kill him at a random time and place within the month. Unfortunately for Peter, right after he orders the hit, a treatment is discovered that would add decades to his life. Now Peter Katz has to start running, until the month-long deadline ends. Desperate to survive, he has to deal with tall-dwarves, unionized suicide workers, art terrorism and all the insanity that being alive has to offer. Will he make it to the end of the month? Or will Peter Katz live a life's worth of craziness in however many days he has left? For what is Comedy, but Tragedy + Time? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
Time is Running Out by AimePenser
Time is Running Out
AimePenser
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  • Parts 21
It was the way things worked. Always before, always now, always forever. In the world where Raine "3" lives, people are categorized by times, present like a tattoo since birth, and determines what times they are allowed to proceed outside. Follow the main characters in their journey in the corrupt social structure that they were born into and their struggles to find a better world for everyone; for it is not about us, or them, but it is about equality, it is about how everyone should get-and deserves-a chance to become who they want to be-because time? It's running out.
Spiderwidow (Into The Spiderverse Fanfic) by EmmaDanversAuthor
Spiderwidow (Into The Spiderverse Fanfic)
EmmaDanversAuthor
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  • Parts 12
Cara Parks never knew what greatness was. Until she was given the chance to experience it for a lifetime. ~~ Spiderman is gone. He disappeared, without a trace, without a fight. He seemed to vanish out of thin air, and hasn't been heard of in two years. And he's never coming back. Never. The glory days of the webslinger are over, for good. Nobody cares anymore though. Nobody even remembers Spiderman anymore, it's like he was erased from everybody's mind in the city of New York. He's just a fairy tale, a legend of a great hero that never existed. He was never supposed to exist. And nobody is allowed to remember he was alive. Nobody. But Cara Parks remembers. And she's the only one. She made Spiderman a promise...a promise to protect New York. She took the mask for him. She became Spiderwidow...for him. Now she's the friendly neighborhood Spiderman...even though superheroes are illegal in the first place. But something isn't right in New York, and Cara knows it's because of Spiderman's disappearance. People are dying, more and more, and the government won't do anything about it. They just seem to ignore all the recent murders, and everyone in New York ignores them as well. And the murder count just keeps getting higher. Her city is in great danger...and Spiderwidow is the only left to save it. But she can't do this alone. All she has is the Spiderverse, a few familiar heroes, and a little bit hope...she has to save her New York, and all the other Spiderverses before it's too late. Before the government destroys all of the Spiderheroes, in New York, and in the Spiderverse. Before all of her new friends die.. Including her. But Cara has never known what it's like to experience greatness before... But greatness doesn't always come easily. It comes within our hearts. "With great power, comes great responsibility.." ~~ •Make sure to check out my conversation for story updates!•