[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] After the tense visit by Janus’ men, a nearly half-hour-long flogging at Hush-a-Bye’s hands had been very therapeutic, and now—flushed and covered with a sheen of sweat all over his bare, bruised, welted and blood-streaked torso—GoodKnight stood near her. “Ya did […]
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The Gathering Storm, Part 21
Posted: 16th February 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: Crazy Jane, fortunato, GoodKnight, Guardian Corps, Hush-a-Bye, janus, marksburgh, New Judah, query, Underworld
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The Gathering Storm, Part 20
Posted: 12th February 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: GoodKnight, Hush-a-Bye, janus, ladykiller, Mad Dash, marksburgh, New Judah, query, superheroes, supervillains
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Through a mouthful of glazed doughnut, Carl Beacham mumbled, “Are we there yet?” “Yeah, and we’ve been here a bit over an hour and we’ll be here several hours more at least. But you already knew that. I warned you stakeouts […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 18
Posted: 18th October 2011 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: Allison Wonderland, fortunato, New Judah, query, superheroes, Underworld
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] In her Allison Wonderland costume, but sans the mask and wig, Vanessa Santos landed a vicious kick at the midsection of the practice dummy, then a quick trio of hand strikes at the nose, throat and chest. She did a short […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 17
Posted: 2nd October 2011 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: Crazy Jane, Epitaph, janus, Mad Dash, New Judah, query, solstice, superheroes, supervillains, Underworld
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Entering Janus’ office, she moved with slow, purposeful steps, like a ballet dancer building up toward some grand maneuver—then she abruptly stopped 12 feet away from the imposing mahogany desk, where Janus sat and Underworld and Crazy Jane stood nearby. Standing […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 16
Posted: 5th September 2011 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: janus, New Judah, query, solstice, superheroes, supervillains, Underworld
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Janus gave Underworld a lingering eye-to-eye look over the edge of the files he was perusing and through the eyeholes of his half-comedy/half-tragedy mask. He sighed heavily, and Underworld raised one eyebrow. “What?” she prodded. “Shrill?” “Why not?” “You think we […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 12
Posted: 5th February 2011 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: New Judah, query, superheroes, supervillains, tooth fairy
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] When Carl Beacham, attorney-at-law, entered Query’s office from the tiny and unstaffed outer reception area—He really should get a sexy secretary, Carl mused silently—a head swiveled toward him swiftly—a metallic-and-polymer visage regarding him coldly with two large and luminous eyes separated […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 10
Posted: 30th December 2010 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: janus, loc-down, New Judah, query, solstice, superheroes, supervillains, Underworld, whethermen
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] After a long day of meting out justice—or perhaps just venting her frustrations over life’s problems on the few kinds of people on whom it was more or less socially acceptable to do so—Solstice really just wanted to relax, grab a […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 4
Posted: 22nd November 2010 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: Ben Glick, janus, query, superheroes, supervillains, the gathering storm, Underworld, whethermen
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] It was always an interesting sensation to be both the hunter and the hunted at the same time, Query mused. What say ye, pray ye? Oh, prey shall you pray to an indifferent god; while hunter is slaking his thirst on […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 3
Posted: 2nd November 2010 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: janus, Mad Dash, query, superheroes, supervillains, the gathering storm, Underworld, whethermen
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Another out-of-the-way, grimy location; another dollar. Well, more accurately, $33,000 for this little trip, which was why Julian Gregori wasn’t grumbling much about driving all the way up to Maine from new Judah to deliver the crate in a defunct textile […]
The Gathering Storm, Part 2
Posted: 29th October 2010 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm seriesTags: janus, loc-down, New Judah, query, superheroes, supervillains, the gathering storm, tooth fairy, whethermen
[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Professor McGinnis jotted down a date on the whiteboard—1970—then underneath it the current year: 2010. He turned to his Sociology and Culture class, every one of the 25 students a senior, pointing the dry erase marker at them, waving it like […]