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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 10: Change We Can Believe In

by T Campbell Return to chapter list “Fighting me, that’s gonna be a problem for you,” said Chester Cheese, shutting his eyes tight; they were useless against this opponent, anyway. “Alley-Kat-Abra’s been teaching me night-fighting moves. If you don’t know what those are, I’ll explain, using visual aids and tactile stimulation.” “Nice bluff,” came Randall . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 9: Whoogle Doodle

by T Campbell Return to chapter list “Talk to me, folks. Sergey Bruin is really against the idea of this. He won’t even look at the concepts for it. I want to know if I’m being crazy.” Hairy Sage, the marmoset co-founder of Whoogle and now its CEO, was standing in front of a short . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 8: Pep Talk

by T Campbell Return to chapter list Please don’t take this the wrong way, Earth-C, thought Captain Carrot as the Starhopper‘s engines went silent, and it settled into geosynchronous orbit. You’re great, really. I just need a little space. Times like this, it was good for his overall mental health that he could make himself . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 7: Tar Baby

by T Campbell Return to chapter list The Starhopper tore out of the Z-Building like a runaway rocket. Which it was. So that made sense. The force-field had dropped about ten seconds earlier, to everyone’s surprise — everyone’s, that was, but Rex Imperium’s. The Irish setter knew a thing or two about asymmetrical warfare, and . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 6: Round Two

by T Campbell Return to chapter list Captain Carrot blinked his sore eyes. Everything in his body hurt. But others had it worse, and a hero was basically just someone who thought of others a little bit more than others thought of others. The team had looked better. Alley-Kat-Abra had re-materialized all seven of them . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 5: The Snare

by T Campbell Return to chapter list In the back row of the Pant-Pantages Theater, Emoticat’s T-shirt also stretched into a smile. A wave of confident euphoria swept across the room, giving the super-villains the confidence they needed to attack the legendary Zoo Crew, and encouraging the Crew members to think they had a chance. . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 4: By the Beard of Zeu

by T Campbell Return to chapter list Twenty-one seconds after the thunderclaps started, the last wall of the trailer finally blew off, and Pig-Iron and Rubberduck came face to face with Zeu. But not the same Zeu. What Rubberduck saw was a swan whose skin gleamed like opal and alabaster in his three-piece suit, an . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 3: Crew Cutters

by T Campbell Return to chapter list “R-O-O-O-V-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A!” the communicator bellowed. Rova Barkitt was in her full Yankee Poodle costume and riding one of her stripe-slides down Follywood Boulevard. A high-visibility patrol was good for public safety and for her personal brand. She almost lost her balance because of the Captain’s volume, but she took . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 2: Deep Freeze

by T Campbell Return to chapter list The heroes soon to be known as the Pan-Plastic Four stared at each other, unable to believe the incredible changes racking their animal bodies. Seed Switcher was stretching his wings and neck every which way, like some kind of malleable mallard, and he would soon become known as . . .

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Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew: The Sinister Selfies, Chapter 1: The Plan

by T Campbell Return to chapter list It began with a Whoogle search and a quiet whimper of despair. Doctor Hoot was out of ideas. The mad orange owl’s laboratory was a monument to his disappointments. Blueprints for demolished giant robots lined the small eat-in kitchen. The snapped remains of his mind-control leashes sat in . . .

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Tales of the Unexpected: The Librarian

by Drivtaan
Tales of the Unexpected: The Five Earths Project
Have you ever wished for the power to rid yourself of all the annoying and rude people around you? Meet the librarian, who has a peculiar talent for helping people become more completely immersed in a book than they would have ever thought possible…

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Swamp Thing: The Doll’s House

by Doc Quantum
Swamp Thing: The Five Earths Project
Abby Cable is living the perfect life with the perfect husband, the dashing and heroic Matt Cable, with a baby on the way. So why does it feel like she’s living in a doll’s house? And why can’t she recall the former love of her life, Swamp Thing? Guest starring the Phantom Stranger, and featuring the return of a long-forgotten spooky character!

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Swamp Thing: The Doll’s House, Epilogue: The Wanderer

by Doc Quantum Return to chapter list The Erl-King had left the land of his birth to travel the world, in order to visit his domain and meet his subjects. But as usual, horror and tragedy often followed in his wake. Most who saw him coming, and there were very few, thought him to be . . .

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Swamp Thing: The Doll’s House, Chapter 4: Infected by Love

by Doc Quantum Return to chapter list Matthew Cable concluded his story, but by the harsh look on Abby Holland’s face, he hadn’t garnered any sympathy from her. This was going to be more difficult than he thought. Still, he thought he could still win her back somehow; he just needed to get that damned . . .

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Swamp Thing: The Doll’s House, Chapter 3: Deal with the Devil

by Doc Quantum Return to chapter list A few years ago: Lieutenant Matthew Cable was a wreck of a man. This once-proud soldier and extremely capable secret agent had been reduced to his current state by men working for his former boss, Dwight Wicker of the top-secret military intelligence branch known as the DDI. The . . .

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