Story Vault
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You know what you like. Now read it.
Teenaged heroes Sebastian, Evangeline, and the rest of the East End Irregulars, plunge into the High Strangeness and unexpectedly lethal dangers of Pittsburgh, a second-class city with first-class perils.
Ever since he was a kid, Sebastian wanted to be a superhero. Now, as the water-controlling psychic vigilante Torrent, he prowls the streets of Pittsburgh, doing his best to right wrongs and keep his double life a secret.
These stories do not appear in a book, and may or may not happen during the events of other books.
The 900-year-old alchemist known as The Promethean leads The Challenger Foundation, an unlikely extended family of veteran superheroes and explorers facing arcane and other-worldly perils.
A brazen band of robbers raids the New York Metropolitan Museum. To ensure their escape, the thieves release an unprecedented weapon: a mist that turns men to stone.
The Martian onslaught has crushed earth’s mightiest empires and reduced the great achievements of civilization to poisoned rubble, but mankind still endures.From the ruins, unexpected champions arise to confront a foe that has never yet known defeat, and the stakes are nothing less than the survival of the human race.
Four short stories of superheroes and paranormal menace set amid the carnage of the War of the Worlds
More heroes emerge to face the otherworldly menace. The Martians pull out all the stops trying to eliminate Signalman.
From those stranded at sea to people needed to be hauled from a burning building, these stories are filled with cool tech and bold heroes.
War has come to the Plata Raft, a 350-mile long community of anarchic seasteaders and hardscrabble mariners off the coast of South America. When an Argentine warship pursues a smuggler and his young daughter to South Atlantic House of Refuge #49, the only thing that stands between them and certain death is Justin Agnarsson, the floating sanctuary's stationkeeper.
When fire breaks out amidst the island of St. Martin's waterfronts, the daring airborne firemen of Marin-Pyronef answer the call. But the fire threatens more than lives and property: can Marin-Pyronef's founder ignore the urge for vengeance when he's asked to rescue the man who ruined his career? Find out here, in Salamander Six.
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