[Night City 2076, Top of Arasaka Tower]
“Look, Mom… I’m here. Very top of Arasaka Tower.”
David knew he was gone at this point. A lost cause. He was riding the edge. So thrilling, so terrifying. Nothing could bring him back. Not really. But he st...
2024-03-27 01:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostIn a specifically prepared showroom attached to the Dead End, one of a jester girl’s dreams was coming true. That’s right, baby~! Harley Quinn had her own show now~! She was going to be FAMOUS famous~!
The set was only sparsely decorated for now but that was fine. It was their fi...
2024-03-25 00:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“-So I was drunk as a skunk at this point. Just completely wasted. The only thing that kept me from blacking out was the fact that cultivators are BULLSHIT. So instead of poisoning myself and utterly destroying my liver, the Thousand Venom Snake Whiskey was only making me more powerful. It was ...
2024-03-23 01:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostClark Kent didn’t quite know how to feel about one Sean Caine. The man was… vexing. As frustrating as he was likable. And just an utter walking enigma. He didn’t go against EVERYTHING Clark thought he knew about the world. But he did turn more than a few of Clark’s preconceived notions on...
2024-03-19 23:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Prepare, Sean Caine, Eternal Barkeeper! I have declared my interest in your legend! I intend to visit your establishment! We shall drink and fight and break bread and tell tales! A grand friendship starts with this letter! Do not resist!’
It all started when I received a note. A messag...
2024-03-17 15:19:22 +0000 UTC View PostSean gazed deeply into Kara’s eyes. Wide baby blues met stormy grays. Shock, disbelief, delight, and something akin to flustered panic shined from behind her eyes.
Sean’s hands held hers tenderly. Delicate fingers intertwined with his larger, slightly more rugged ones. Palm against palm...
2024-03-15 02:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The girls and I followed the Kents into their dining room. There we were greeted by the rest of the family. Three people — a woman and two younger boys. Oh, and a dog. Can’t forget the dog. Krypto the Superpup barked happily in greeting.
The woman stood, coming over to greet us. She was...
2024-03-13 15:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostKara hummed to herself, flying high above her city in costume. National City was a big place. Not quite as big as Metropolis or Gotham but close. And while it wasn’t nearly as eventful as those two cities, it held a special place in Kara’s heart. It was hers.
She kept her ears open, lis...
2024-03-10 17:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostWeeeee~!
Mew was enjoying itself. It had never regretted coming with the trainer that finally ‘tamed’ it. Though it would protest against that specific wording. Mew wasn’t tamed. It was quite free to do whatever it so wished. And what it so wished was to go on adventures through the m...
2024-03-09 03:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Ciri laughed at the top of her lungs, thoroughly enjoying herself for the first time in recent memory. Nothing loomed over her head anymore. She was free from the Hunt, free from her constant flight between worlds. All because she’d heard a song that shouldn’t have been familiar but WAS 2024-03-06 23:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
“We’re about ready, Mr. Barkeep,” Black Canary said
She came back up to the bar to tell me that. At the same time, she looked like she would rather be anywhere else. I clearly wasn’t making her my biggest fan in any sense of the word. She didn’t seem to deal with the Dead End’s ...
2024-03-04 17:18:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ll admit to a bit of excitement. It was happening. And it couldn’t have picked a better night. Entertainment was written in the cards tonight, and for once, it didn’t have my stories’ name on it. Live music at the Dead End, featuring Black Canary, John Constantine, and LUCIFER MORNINGST...
2024-03-01 18:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A great darkness clouded the land. Cruel. Menacing. Terrifying. And utterly adorable. Cass had turned to the dark side. To evil. She threatened everything we held dear! Who, oh, who would stop her?!
I had no choice but to step up to the plate. I was the only one who stood between the rest o...
2024-02-28 03:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Contrary to the usual norm, the Dead End didn’t wake with the rising sun. Instead, we stirred when it began to fall below the horizon. The ultimate effect was still the same, especially when it came to Harley.
She groaned, “Uuuuuuugggghhhhh~… Stupid fuckin’ sunset… Stupid fuckin...
2024-02-26 00:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostA lone woman stood before seven screens, arranged in a semi-circle around her. Each screen projected a silhouette, obscured entirely by light. And though the expressions of the people on the other side of the screens were impossible to make out, it was clear that the majority of them were… curr...
2024-02-23 01:16:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Kara was having the time of her life. She knew she was being slightly naughty at the moment. Breaking the Watchtower’s rules and all that. But there was something about flying around the station’s halls that had her tingling with excitement and giddy giggles.
When was the last time she ...
2024-02-21 03:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Barbara. Just file your own damn report already,” Batman growled.
Barbara rolled her eyes for the umpteenth time since she came up to the Watchtower to visit Kara and put herself in Bruce’s range of nagging, “Flash filed one. Isn’t that enough?”
“For something like this...
2024-02-18 16:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe expressions in the Dead End wouldn’t have looked out of place on soldiers returning from WWI. Nearly everyone was practically shell-shocked. Flash. Captain Cold. Riddler. Catwoman. The Bat Family. Countless mooks and goons. Even I didn’t escape unscathed. The Rabbit of Caerbannog was just...
2024-02-16 04:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe staring match of the century took place in the Dead End — Bat Mom vs. The Flash. The kids were just thankful for the respite from their familial embarrassment via group hugs. Well, except for Damian. He was a good kid and seemed to genuinely enjoy the show of affection from his mother.
<... 2024-02-13 17:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“Sean Caine. Designation: Mr. Barkeep. Alignment: Neutral. Threat Level: Cosmic,” Batman said somberly.
Flash snorted, “You’ve got a Cosmic threat running around in your city and you haven’t done anything about it?”
“Yes,” Batman simply replied.
“You have to ad...
2024-02-11 17:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Kara’s visit got me thinking. It was successful. Kara was, and I think always would be, a delight. It was nearly impossible to hate her. She was just so positive and wholesome.
Barbara called her ‘farm-girl’. As in the female equivalent of ‘farm-boy’. It fit. I knew she didn’t g...
2024-02-09 04:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kara thought she knew what she was getting into.
“-And-! And-! He’s such a bastard! A sexy, stupid, sexy, insufferable, sexy bastard!” Barbara raved. “He’s made more work for me in a few months than Dick has all year! And you know what Dick is like! Don’t even get me started on ...
2024-02-06 02:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post
On an otherwise routine night, the Dead End received two visitors. They were unexpected. And they required special attention from me. Mostly because I had them banned on a technicality before they showed up.
Thankfully, the two mystery guests weren’t on the permanent ban list. They weren...
2024-02-03 16:49:33 +0000 UTC View PostTwo-Face was fuming mad. Everyone in the Dead End could tell. So mad he wasn’t even flipping his trademark coin. He was just glaring at Catwoman with a rage to match the sun.
“Oh, calm down, Two-Face,” Catwoman said, rolling her eyes. “It was just a silly little gem. It wasn’t eve...
2024-02-01 00:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I accept,” Black Alice intoned gravely.
She probably put more gravitas into her acceptance than I did for my formal offer of sanctuary. But this was magic and there were certain rituals to be observed. Strangely, I didn’t think Alice actually knew that. I think she was just a closet ...
2024-01-29 16:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Dead End was empty. It was closing time, about 5:30 in the morning. The sun would be coming up in an hour or so. What passed for sunshine in Gotham, at least. I kept the bar open late — or early, more accurately — to cater to my prime clientele but even that had limits. Mostly because Har...
2024-01-27 03:06:07 +0000 UTC View Post
With a grin on my face and a song in my heart, I surveyed my kingdom. Oh, that was a thought. Maybe I should see about getting live music for the bar.
Maybe I could get Black Canary to sing here. Or get John Constantine to resurrect the punk band of his youth. I think even some of the Bat F...
2024-01-25 02:25:28 +0000 UTC View Post[AN: You can skip the second half of this chapter if you want to avoid smut (for whatever reason)
Also, credit to Roy Marax on my Patreon for the mirror idea. I really like how it turned out.]
IIIII
“Oh, no you don’t. You ar...
2024-01-23 16:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dead End, Black Mask decided, didn’t seem like anything special. From the outside, it looked positively plain. Not quite a dive but certainly not anything fancy and elevated either. Mask had trouble believing this was the den of someone powerful enough to stay neutral in Gotham of all place...
2024-01-20 03:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post“This is bullshit,” Harley growled.
She’d been testy for a couple of days now. To the point that not even kinky cuckquean-y sex could cheer her up. I couldn’t say I blamed her. Especially not with how things had turned out.
The Joker and his threatening promise loomed over our...
2024-01-18 03:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post