Posts Tagged ‘supervillains’

Right Place, Wrong Style

Posted: 5th August 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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Sorry I still haven’t gotten around to the next chapter of “The Gathering Storm” and even sorrier that it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything new here. My Muse is a bit fickle the past few weeks… Right Place, Wrong Style Two aesthetic philosophies continued to duel in his mind even now, more than […]

Broken Legacy

Posted: 12th July 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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A dog face peered intently at another dog face and sighed in an all-too-human way. A human voice, too, issued from the ebony muzzle with a weary, “Why did you do it?” The other dog-head issued its own human response from its dark brown muzzle: “Do what?” “Leave a witness,” answered Hellhound from behind the […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Almost human again, thought Zoe. Almost human. It’s amazing what water—hot enough and copious enough—can do to sluice away the remnants of a day full of horrors. In the steamy confines of the small bathroom, a towel wrapped around her torso, […]

Bad Business

Posted: 14th May 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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If you haven’t already read “Customer Relations,” I’d suggest you do so before reading this story, as the two tales are closely connected, though that story takes place a little over two years before this one. ___________________________________ Bad Business If there was one thing James could count on at 8 p.m. from Monday through Saturday, […]

Fly Away, Fairy

Posted: 6th April 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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A vision of lacy, frilly, girly splendor in the darkness. A pale blur against the backdrop of small night-shadowed park spaces and commercial buildings. A lithe, springing, satin-winged form running and skipping in the moonlight. The night was her time. The time of sleep and the time when the Tooth Fairy wandered. Even before she […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] She’d known he was coming—she’d been alerted by phone. But apparently he’d also been warned she was on edge. All for the best, Zoe supposed, as she heard a twig snap in the distance and a youthful, jovial voice calling out […]

[ – 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 […]

Dividing by Zero

Posted: 30th January 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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Sitting in the break room, the assistant warden regarded his subordinate coolly through the rising steam from his coffee cup. He slurped loudly and slowly, then lowered the cup. As it thudded just a hair too loudly on the table, the second-in-command of the Janszen Correctional Institution put on his most disarming and collegial smile. […]

The Gathering Storm, Part 19

Posted: 20th October 2011 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm series
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[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] After the latest recruitment dinner with Zoe—and possibly the last, given how much other work there was to do between now and the woman’s graduation deadline—Underworld was relieved to get back the the headquarters. Not only did she dearly want to […]

[ – 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 […]