Chapter 8 : The Transfer and the Trap
Allen completed his incision, the blade parting flesh to reveal something that moved within the opened chest cavity—something that wasn't human anatomy but writhed with independent life.
From deep within Allen's corpse came a sound...
2025-08-28 21:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7 : The Parasite's Plan
Carl awoke to the harsh glare of the work lights and the cold touch of metal against his skin. He was lying naked on one of the examination tables with leather restraints binding his wrists and ankles. The straps were tight enough to cut off circulatio...
2025-08-28 21:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6 : The Awakening
The approach to Allen's gurney felt different from the others. Each step seemed to require conscious effort, as if the very air around the isolated corpse had thickened into something hostile. Carl's medical bag felt heavier in his hand, and the familiar wei...
2025-08-28 21:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5 : The First Autopsies
The makeshift morgue was a study in improvised functionality. Deputy Davis had done his best with limited resources, hauling in examination tables from the local meat plant and setting up work lights powered by a generator from the mine. The temperatur...
2025-08-28 21:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4 : The Dying Doctor
The Greyhound bus wheezed to a stop at Bailey's modest station, its air brakes hissing like a tired sigh. Dr. Carl Winters gathered his medical bag and small suitcase, moving slowly as he descended the steps.
The journey from his home in the...
2025-08-28 21:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3 : The Call for Help
Trucker's Tavern sat at the crossroads of two forgotten highways, an old building that had seen better decades. The neon Budweiser sign in the window flickered intermittently, casting red shadows across the gravel parking lot.
Sheriff Nate ...
2025-08-28 21:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2 : The Discovery and the Hunt
The smell hit Sheriff Nate Craven before he even got out of his patrol car. Death had a particular odor that every law enforcement officer learned to recognize—sweet, cloying and foul that seemed to seep into your clothes and follow you home. ...
2025-08-28 21:22:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 : The Meteor and the Disappearances
NB : I wrote the Episode : Autopsy from the show Cabinet of Curiosities into a short story. Do watch the episode for a more visual effect. Each episode in it is standalone, so no worries.
The night sky stretched endlessly above the ...
2025-08-28 21:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63: False Security
The cards felt smooth between Garfield Lynns' fingers as he arranged his hand, a satisfied smirk playing across his face.
The recreation room of the federal minimum security facility was a far cry from Blackgate's concrete hellscape—soft lig...
2025-08-28 06:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 62: Trauma Counselling
The sterile white walls of Gotham General Hospital's burn ward carried the persistent smell of antiseptic and healing flesh. Martin Reeves lay propped up in his hospital bed, gauze covering the worst of the burns on his arms and face. Five weeks had pas...
2025-08-26 10:05:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61: The Transfer
Special Agent Jim Crawford straightened his Italian silk tie as he walked through the empty corridors of Blackgate Penitentiary's maximum security wing. At thirty-eight, Crawford had spent fifteen years clawing his way up the federal law enforcement ladder, a...
2025-08-24 14:02:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60: Swift Justice
Judge Harold Wilson hadn't slept properly in three days. Every shadow seemed to hide watching eyes, every sudden noise made him reach for the panic button installed beneath his desk. He knew The Architect’s reach was spreading through Gotham’s courts, an...
2025-08-22 05:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59: New Powers, New Message
Alex had turned an old, empty warehouse in Gotham's industrial district into his new lab. The large, open space was ideal for conducting experiments in secret.
Sunlight filtered through cracked windows, illuminating the dust in the air...
2025-08-20 09:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58: The Inferno
Garfield Lynns stood across the street from Sunset Gardens Retirement Home, watching the flames from his earlier work dance behind the windows. He hadn't planned this specifically – he'd been flying over Gotham looking for something, anything, to burn when h...
2025-08-19 06:15:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57: Charity Work
(It’s a good day to start a new arc — wishing everyone gets one just as pleasant.)
Martin Reeves adjusted the plastic tablecloth one more time, smoothing out a wrinkle that probably only he could see. The community room at Sunset Gardens Re...
2025-08-17 08:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Real Name: Garfield Lynns
Affiliation: Independent Arsonist / Occasional Mercenary
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Occupation: Pyromaniac Supercriminal
Abilities and Traits:
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2025-08-16 10:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56: The Ocean of Minds
The elderly woman's body contorted as she slowly pulled herself upright, her neck twisted at an odd angle and the broken vertebrae crunching as she moved. "You know, for someone who claims to be the perfect evolution… you're remarkably stupid."
...
2025-08-16 10:21:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55: The Bait
The old bus wheezed to a stop at coordinates that didn't exist on any map, its engine ticking in the sudden silence like a dying heartbeat. Alex sat three rows back, watching condensation form patterns on the dirty windows as his fellow passengers stirred restles...
2025-08-14 05:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54: The Journey Home
The first thing Alex became aware of was the steady beeping of monitoring equipment—a rhythmic sound that seemed to pull him back from the depths of Emily's mindscape.
"Alex?" Caitlin's voice came from somewhere to his right, filled with r...
2025-08-13 06:20:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe neural pathways along the vault walls pulsed faster, their gentle blue glow shifting to warning amber as the massive door began to shake.
Each impact sent tremors through the chamber, but the fortress held—just as Emily's subconsci...
2025-08-12 13:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52: The Core Vault
Alex took a deep breath and dove.
The water was shockingly cold as he plunged through the flooded room toward the glowing vault door. The emotional fragment had dissolved around him, but he could still feel her presence—a warm current guiding...
2025-08-11 08:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51: The Weeping Room
Alex pressed himself against the breathing wall, listening to the house reorganize itself around him.
The fragment in his hand pulsed with warmth—a small piece of Emily’s mind that still trusted him enough to stay intact. But somewhere d...
2025-08-10 08:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50: Into the Labyrinth
Alex opened his eyes to falling.
Not through air, but through memory itself—fragments of Emily's life rushing past him like shards of broken glass. A childhood bedroom. Laboratory equipment. The images cut at his consciousness as he plumm...
2025-08-08 06:37:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49: Meeting Team Flash
The turbulence over Central City felt different from Gotham’s constant storm clouds—lighter somehow, as if even the sky here had a different rhythm. Alex Thorne shifted in his first-class seat, the manila folder on his tray table spread open like the piec...
Chapter 48: Fusion
(Warning : Mature/Explicit themes ahead. Please skip if you feel uncomfortable)
The clone stood silently for a moment, then smiled with Theo's weathered features. When it spoke, the voice carried a coldness that neither criminal had heard before. 2025-08-05 04:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 47 : The Great Escape II
The maintenance tunnel stretched ahead, dim and narrow, with emergency lights flickering over damp, stained walls. The clone led Falcone and Maroni deeper into the old treatment plant's underground passages,their footsteps echoing in the tight space.<...
2025-08-04 03:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46: The Great Escape I
The clone adjusted his uniform as he moved through Blackgate's dimly lit corridors, his footsteps echoing softly against concrete walls. At 11:15 PM exactly, he approached Cell Block D, where Carmine Falcone and Sal Maroni waited with the anticipation.<...
2025-08-01 04:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45 : Inside the Walls
The clone that had once been Tony Marcelli crouched on the fire escape outside Theo Walton's third-floor apartment, watching through the window as the corrupt guard stumbled drunkenly toward his bedroom.
Theo was alone – his ex-wife had ta...
2025-07-30 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 44 : Expanding Influence
The afternoon sun cast long shadows across Wayne Enterprises' executive floor as Alex Thorne adjusted his tie, reviewing the psychological profiles spread across his briefcase. Three weeks had passed since the Dollotron incident, and his reputation as...
2025-07-28 08:55:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43: The Ripple
The Gotham University Psychology Department buzzed with unusual energy as Alex arrived for his morning lecture. Students clustered around newspaper stands, their voices mixing excitement with unease.
The headlines screamed variations of the same st...
2025-07-27 06:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post