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The Last Skull by Robert C. Rodgers

Teenagers. Super-heroes. Explosions. Time-travel.

After her mother died in a car accident, Sue Daysdale never expected to stumble upon the family secret—that the mild-mannered soccer mom who taught her how to dance, sing, and properly dress a wound was the Skull, one of the most legendary (and terrifying) super-heroes alive.  Now, saddled with an unpaid mortgage, a drug-addicted guardian, and a basement full of . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice weekly.
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The Data Yodeler by Brad Salomans

The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality.  It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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THE DATA YODELER

It’s Twitterific.

Editor: Chris Poirier
June 9, 2009

The Data Yodeler is a well-written—though ultimately lack-lustre—story of a fictional experiment in web-celebrity.  It’s a postmortem, in effect, of how the experiment came about, and "what went wrong". 

Russ decides to put his life on display, 18 hours a day, via blogging, twitter, photos, and video.  He finds a sponser—the [more . . .]

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THE LAST SKULL

Gritty? check. Dark? check. Worth reading? CHECK

Member: Gavin Williams
June 29, 2010

I grew up a comic book geek thanks to my Dad’s extensive collection.  I get excited about superheroes, but I also have high standards because I’ve read so much.  Superheroes in text form are interesting to me because you get to know the interior world of the characters in a different way than a visual comic—you also get to use [more . . .]

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