Category: The Lightning God
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The Lightning God – Issue 5 – The Original
Long ago, before the Earth was dominated by humanity, before dinosaurs even, before the continents as we know them formed, there was a race of giants who existed on the planet as Earth’s dominant species. We will call them the First People as they have come to be known by the few humans aware of…
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The Lightning God – Issue 4 – The Second
Clay Franklin lived a charmed life. He was the son of Leo Franklin, a boxer who had parlayed his Olympic career into real celebrity. Clay was born in North Carolina, but grew up in a veritable mansion in rural Charleston, South Carolina. The mansion was nice and Clay loved his life wandering through the big,…
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The Lightning God – Issue 3 – The First
The sky, everything, was white. Everyone was blinded and blinked away spots from their eyes. It had only lasted a second and there was no sound, but everyone within a ten mile radius of the source saw it and was afraid that it was a portend of awful things; like the first time the silent…
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The Lightning God Issue 2. The Devil in the Town of Borges continued
Leo Franklin became a household name when he represented the US at two Olympic Games, once as a middle heavyweight, and then as a heavyweight. Franklin retired in his mid thirties and he devoted a considerable amount of his time to improving impoverished communities. He started first in the small NC town where he was…
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The Lightning God Issue 1. The Devil in the Town of Borges
Anabel stood in the doorway of her son’s bedroom. She had rosary beads in her hand and she felt each one with her fingers one at a time as she prayed in a quickfire whisper. Her eyes were closed tight. She knew that she should have her eyes open. Her son needed her then more…