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The Unplanned Adventures Part 6 - Uncomfortable Generations

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Uncomfortable Generations

By Paul Calhoun

Dear readers: I started this in February expecting to be done by Easter. These stories are just getting longer and longer than expected. I thought it'd be short. Anyway, Mike's extended family visits, teaching Jane and Susan not to call their family weird. Here is a PDF with all the stories to date in their proper font, leading and with all the paragraph indentation intact.
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Miracle of Science

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Miracle of Science
by Maeryn Lamonte

Guys just don’t go for secretarial jobs. I mean however much we strive for equality, in the real world the best qualifications for such work are the ones nature gave you — assuming of course you’re young, female and stacked like an overloaded forklift.

James Sandford was none of these. Going on fifty, recently out of work and running out of cash, he was desperate. Desperate enough that when he saw the advert — no discrimination, no prior experience needed — he figured it was worth a shot, even though he was the only guy there.

The thing is when you work in a leading high tech solutions company even a secretarial job isn’t necessarily what you’d expect…

Cataloging Events

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Catwoman Cataloging Events
By Maid Joy
Catwoman gets schooled in more ways than one, and some technology is released into the wilds of civilization. Many threads are picked up and tied off neatly in this chapter.

Sandy Claws

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Catwoman Sandy Claws
By Maid Joy

Catwoman acts as protector of children and finds some disturbing realities. Things only get worse the deeper into the investigation she goes. A simple thief, not any more. A Mercenary? Maybe if someone were paying her bill. Story threads start weaving together.

The Cat’s in the Cradle

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Some decisions made mean that irreparable harm may happen to humanity, but will that stop Catwoman from actually doing it? And how much trouble will she be in with Jade?

Avatar Me!

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Nathan, a journalist, stumbles upon a web site for incredibly realistic female body suits while researching fetish wear. Convinced that they are fake, he goes along to a product launch to find out.

This story is intended to be the pilot to a series. It was mostly written before the movie Avatar came out, and has no connection to the movie.

Catatonia

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Catwoman Catatonia
By Maid Joy
Things keep going strangely for Catwoman. But when an opportunity to grab some very expensive artifacts comes along, she just can't resist.

Unfortunately that is only the first herald of the changes to come.

The Center: Meet The Enhancer-9

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The Center: Meet the Enchancer -9
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Thanks To JennaFL For Proofing And Nora Adrienne for editing!
Synopsis: A Center Fan Fiction where a new student's dream comes true and the Center gains a most valuable ally.

TGL - Book 1: Through Death, Rebirth: Chapter 15

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Gateway to Life
-:Book 1:-
Through Death, Rebirth

by Faeriemage

Copyright  © 2010 Faeriemage
All Rights Reserved.

Sometimes, it is what you do that matters. Sometimes, it is who you are. Usually it is just being in the proper place at the proper moment in time with the will to act.

Chapter 15:
Idyll of the Storm

Monsters in the Dark

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World: Earth4

Commander, we have a level two incursion outside Seattle

The man sitting in the comfortable chair shifted uncomfortably. "Let's get company six and eight on their way out there, and have squad A of third company support locals until relieved."

That will likely result in a complete loss of squad A third.

"Don't you think I know that, you fool machine! We just don't have enough Class I talent graduating from those damned sanitariums. Whoever thought that up should be sent to the next class three incursion."

Cat Scratch Fever

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Cat Scratch Fever

 

The events detailed in this story take place in the three hours after the events in "Catching Up" and "Big Trouble 3"

Author's Note: A Retroactive Continuity, or Retcon if you will, is the altering of previously known facts in order for the universe to conform to new story lines. This is mine. This is a retcon of the story of Catwoman's furhter adventures. Detective Comics owns the character of Catwoman, Lex Luthor and Lena Luthor.

Catching Up

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Catching Up

 

Just a word of note. Lilith and I co-wrote this one. She took care of the parts involving Jon, I took care of Catwoman. The ideas didn't gel just right, but I couldn't pull all the Jon stuff and still have some of the story make sense. So, consider this a look into one character who can have an impact later. There is more, but it is the section I pulled out. At some future time I or Lilith will finish it out and then you can see Batgirl. Until then, enjoy.

And yes, I'm going to continue with the "Cat" puns for titles.

Author's Note: A Retroactive Continuity, or Retcon if you will, is the altering of previously known facts in order for the universe to conform to new story lines. This is mine. This is a retcon of the story of Catwoman's life. Detective Comics owns the character of Catwoman, and Lilith owns the copyright to Jade of the Green Lantern Corps. Catwoman in the photo is Michelle Pfeifer.

The Center: Meet the Enhancer

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The Center is dedicated to finding the children affected by a mutagen accidrntly enfused into a water bottling plant's water supply. Any pregnant woman who drinks any of the water dies soon after giving birth to an inter-sexed child.

The child may be born a male or female, but when puberty hits, their gender reverses and are blessed with a telekinetic , telepathic, or empathic gift that manifestes just before puberty.

Catch-as-Cat Can

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Catch-as-Cat Can

 

By Maid Joy
A thesis on metahuman abilites lands the author in trouble with the Green Lantern Corps. When thinking up a way to copy metahuman abilities can have a lot of long reaching consequences, who caves and who stands righteously?

 

Author's Note: A Retroactive Continuity, or Retcon if you will, is the altering of previously known facts in order for the universe to conform to new story lines. This is mine. The first attempt to write in this universe, this is allied with Lilith Langtree's series. This is a retcon of the story of Catwoman and her origins. Detective Comics owns the character of Catwoman, and Lilith owns the copyright to American Dream and Jade of the Green Lantern Corps. The pic credit is J. Scott Campbell.

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Part Three: Revolution

Chapter Twenty Seven: Postscript

What we call a beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
– T. S. Eliot

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Six: Appetencies

An apology for the devil:
It must be remembered that we have only heard
one side of the case.
God has written all the books.
– Samuel Butler

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Four: Mammon

A billion here, a billion there,
and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
– Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Three: Conjointments

I can’t get no satisfaction.
I can’t get no girl reaction.
– Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger
and Keith Richards

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty One: Subterfuge

If an elderly but distinguished scientist
says that something is possible
he is almost certainly right,
but if he says that it is impossible
he is very probably wrong.
– Arthur C. Clarke

 

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Nineteen: Inquirendo

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character
by his way of eating jellybeans.
– Ronald Reagan

A woman is like a tea bag.
Only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
– Nancy Reagan

Happy Mother's Day. This chapter is a day early in honor of mothers, and those who wish to be mothers, everywhere.

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WARNING: PART TWO INCLUDES MATURE MATERIAL (E.G., FOUL LANGUAGE, PROSTITUTION, RAPE, AND MURDER).
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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Eighteen: Partial Peroration

God is subtle, but He is not malicious.
– Albert Einstein
At any rate, I am convinced that He does not play dice.
– Albert Einstein

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WARNING: PART TWO INCLUDES MATURE MATERIAL (E.G., FOUL LANGUAGE, PROSTITUTION, RAPE, AND MURDER).

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Seventeen: Quadration

I wasn’t kissing her,
I was just whispering in her mouth.
– Chico Marx

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Sixteen: Palingenesis

I enjoy convalescence.
It is the part that makes illness worthwhile.
– George Bernard Shaw

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Fifteen: Variegation Maximization

Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose.
[The more things change, the more they remain the same.]
– Alphonse Karr

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Fourteen: Pandemia

It’s not the men in my life that counts,
it’s the life in my men.
– Mae West

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Thirteen: Kismet?

Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
– Sir Winston Churchill

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Twelve: Proliferation

For while we have sex in the mind,
we truly have none in the body.
– D. H. Lawrence

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Eleven: Cozener

Come into my arms my beamish boy.
– “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Ten: Meretrix

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task
since it consists principally in dealing with men.
– Joseph Conrad

The Button

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The Button
by
Grover

I sit here at my kitchen table staring at it. There really wasn’t nothing much to look at. A bulky looking briefcase sized box with a screen displaying a very attractive woman with a very obvious touch screen button flashing off to the side.

That’s all, just an over large tablet or odd shaped laptop. No identifying trademarks or even a seam. Hell the damn thing didn’t have a cord or battery either. It shouldn’t work at all.

But what it did do was something else again.

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Seven: Savoir Faire

In just seven days, I can make you a man.
                          -- Dr. Frank N. Furter
                                                            from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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