You can't just visit your therapist once... ----- Chapter 9. "How it started?" he repeated. Dr. Hsui nodded her head. "Um . . . You think that's important?" She tilted her head questioningly. "I would think so. That's what led to your current problem, isn't it? In the end analysis?" "Well . . . sort of, I guess." Her eyes weren't exactly brown, they seemed sometimes almost gray, sometimes even touched with green. And I'm distracting myself from the task at hand again. He gave a snort of laughter. "And I'd guess [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 8
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Jennifer was meeting with someone my readers have met before... ----- Chapter 8. "Thank you so much for agreeing to see me on such short notice, Mr. Wood," Jennifer said. "No problem," Jason Wood said, waving her inside his office. "Call me Jason, as long as I can call you Jennifer." He gave the trademark slightly-lopsided grin that was familiar to just about everyone on Earth by this point and ran his fingers absently through streaky-blond hair. "I don't think I've ever had a psychologist . . . sorry, psychiatrist . [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 7
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Where there are heroes, there must be Villains... ----- Chapter 7. "Am I . . . alive?" "You are, Lord." Lord? He thought about that. Everything was vague . . . but he remembered anger. A face, a young, determined face filled with certainty and fury. Something about that face made him clench his fists. But he didn't quite remember. . . . "I am your . . . Lord?" A smile, gentle and cold as falling snow. "Now, yes. You have fought long and hard to be here, Lord." Yes. Yes, I remember fighting. The words [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 6
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Dr. Hsui is involved in something she never expected. So what do you do? RESEARCH! ----- Chapter 6. And now I spend half my Saturday working. There wasn't any avoiding the fact that if she was going to be trying to counsel a . . . superhero, she needed more information. Fortunately, Yuki's friend Melanie Davidson was more than happy to have Yuki over for a play date, and Melanie's mother Dawn was even willing to do the pick-up and drop-off. "Thank you so much, Dawn," she said, giving Yuki a kiss on the cheek before [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND, Chapter 5
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Let's look in on a certain little girl... ----- Chapter 5. "Hello there, Virgina." She was already turning, smiling. Somehow I already knew he was there. She ran to the tall, flamboyantly-dressed figure and threw her arms around him, as high up as she could jump. "America!" He chuckled and hugged her back. "And who else? How have you been, Virginia Dare?" "That's Virginia Dare Jefferson!" she corrected proudly. He smiled broadly. "And that's just exactly right, Miss Jefferson. But still Virginia Dare to me, [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 4
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Legend finds himself with a little time to think... ----- Chapter 4. He dropped through what looked like solid rock but was actually a self-perpetuating light projection over the entrance. A flicker of darkness as he fell through the granite tunnel and then the light of the Eyrie blazed up around him. Legend landed lightly, his boots giving an echoing click on the polished stone, and looked around. No one in the entry, so either no one's in, or . . . The entry area was in the center of the Eyrie, with four doors leading [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 3
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Dr. Hsui has her daughter to look after and a lot of thinking to do... ----- Chapter 3. Jennifer realized she'd made it home only when she was opening the front door. I drove home entirely on autopilot. "Mommy!" The delighted cry from farther in the house preceded a small, slender, black-haired dynamo who catapulted into Jennifer's arms so energetically it almost knocked her down. "It's a commercial break, so I can come out now, I had my bath, Gran's reading in the other room, she said I'm a big girl now so I can watch by [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 2
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So, you have a superhero on the analyst's couch... ----- Chapter 2. She was still in something of a state of shock, but she heard herself respond, "I . . . will have to think about it for a few minutes." He looked suddenly chagrined. "Look at me, coming in here with a clear plan as to what I was going to say, and then messing it up already." She blinked. "What do you mean?" "Well, obviously you'll have to think about it. There's . . . a lot of issues. And I wanted to make sure you knew them up front. And I was going to [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND, Chapter 1
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It's just an ordinary day at the office... Chapter 1. "I think today's session went well, Mr. Thompson," Jennifer Hsui said in her best professional tone. It was important to conclude each appointment on time, but not to make the patient—or client, as some people preferred—feel pressured or cut off. Thompson, a man with a heavily lined face and graying hair that showed it had once been dark, managed a smile that creased his cheeks with wrinkles that had not been there so often when first he had come to her——was it a [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Prologue
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Here we begin snippets of my forthcoming superhero novel Legend! ------- Legend By Ryk E. Spoor Prologue. It's going to be a chilly night. Virginia shivered, even though it wasn't cold yet. But she knew she wouldn't be able to go back to the apartment; her father might be chasing after her, or he might have given up for now, but either way going back there was asking for more bruises or worse. She grimaced, looking down at the darkening streaks that were the [ Continue reading... ]
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