Morgan Stark: How Far From The Tree Chapter 2 Unknown Villain Lair Unknown Day/Time Morgan woke up with a terrible headache and horribly dry mouth. She didn't remember going to sleep, in fact, and knew all three were a bad combination. She opened her eyes slowly, but regretted doing so immediately, the light of the room she was in hurt. It took her an unknown amount of time of slowly working her eyes open to adjust to the light so that it didn't hammer her skull further. Now she knew why so many pictures of her father in his younger years had him wearing dark sunglasses in daytime pictures, if this was what a hangover was like. She looked around the room, not taking long at all. A dirty piece of carpet for a bed, and otherwise it was a concrete box that would be tight for an adult, and was merely small for her young body. A single barred window, letting in sunlight, and a steel door with a little slot in the bottom were the only other things to see that weren't concrete
Morgan Stark: How Far From The Tree September 10th, 2025 Stark Residence “Moooooooooooooooom, at this rate, I might as well do a baking soda volcano. Except that stinky Mikey Peterson is already doing one.” Morgan whined with all the sense of entitlement that an 8-year old could bring up. She had worked weeks on the project before school even started, aiming to prevent last year’s debacle that had gotten her expelled from her first school. The fire hadn’t even been that large, anyhow, and it wasn’t her fault that the classroom was right next to the library. “No, and that’s final. How did you even build yourself a set of power armour?” Virginia “Pepper” Potts-Stark stated and asked. The CEO of Stark Industries was rushing around and really didn’t need to be distracted by her daughter again, especially when a security team was busy boxing up the petite suit of armour the parent and child were arguing about. “I built it in Dad’s garage, from a box of scraps.” Morgan said
I crawled forward, trying to walk as well as I could with my leg feeling busted up, vision going in and out from the pain. I could see another car, somehow pristine in this hellish landscape of fire, brimstone, and broken highway, but no, it isn’t pristine, the body is dented and scratched up like it had been used like a battering ram. The pitted chrome decal on the side advertised that the car was a Dodge Dart Demon, appropriate for where I currently was. The over-sized bumpers were not stock, nor was the external horn on the roof. Was this Hell’s idea of a police car or something? Horns, hooting, and hollering came from behind me, the chasers were getting closer, always on my back. I don’t hesitate, and throw open the driver’s side door, and a skeletonized body falls out, tattered rags that once were clothing caught in joints keeping him together, and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand. I pull him out of the car, climb in, and jerk the shotgun out of his blackened fingers
Return of the Lone Wanderer - 19 by CanRay, literature
Literature
Return of the Lone Wanderer - 19
One must realize that the first thing about the Super Sledge is that it isn’t just “an engine block on a stick”, as I’ve heard it described time and again. It has quite a number of kinetic enhancing features that allows it to dent in and wreck tank armour. Those features were now working against each other. Autumn's factory-fresh version with all of its components brand spanking new, or Fawke’s with its extensive customizations and jury-rigs. Both heads met up, the shafts flexed and soon, soon, soon, I kept hoping that the explosive effect would be soon, but the shafts flexed impossibly, until we were helmet
The Last Ride Of The Monster by CanRay, literature
Literature
The Last Ride Of The Monster
My eyes are closed as I dream. I feel the vibration of The Monster’s heart, her wonderful engine. The jolts in the steering wheel from the front wheels, and the shifter aching to go into the next gear. As long as my eyes are closed, I’m just driving. And what I experience is a dream.
Reality crashes into me with the force of a pick-up truck going ninety. My eyes open, looking over at the demon rednecks screaming, hooting, and hollering up a storm. There has to be a dozen of them in the bed of the truck alone, and another group crammed into the cab, too many. All screaming at me to join them. I let go of the screaming skul
The "woman" of my dreams (nightmares) is someone I can feel. I know her inside and out. Flathead V-8, Blower, Supercharger, Turbochargers, Custom Transmission. Hydraulic Suspension. Armstrong Steering. Her tires are runflats, stolen from a jeep. Trunk full of guns and a larger gas tank.
I feel her interior, leather and bare steel, no fabric, no carpet. Custom pedals. Custom steering wheel. Custom shifter. Custom enough that the Ford plant would never recognize her.
She ran rich, leaded petrol. And she drank it more than a Canadian drank beer. She loved the highway, hated the tight corners. She wanted room and lots of it. Compe
The Monster I was in started out life as a 1949 Mercury Eight Coupe. Two doors, hardtop, stretched nose, frenched lights, blower out the hood and insulated turbocharger powered by exhaust. She ran rich, occasionally spouting out flaming bits of unburned fuel out of the pipes; she wasn’t dropped as the suspension clearance was needed for the streets that she took to. The Ford factory would never have believed what had been done to the old flathead V-8 that was the car’s heart and soul. Push button ignition and four-on-the-floor standard transmission was her mind. Whitewalls were her feet. A quarter-mile car, a highway star, n
Morgan Stark: How Far From The Tree Chapter 2 Unknown Villain Lair Unknown Day/Time Morgan woke up with a terrible headache and horribly dry mouth. She didn't remember going to sleep, in fact, and knew all three were a bad combination. She opened her eyes slowly, but regretted doing so immediately, the light of the room she was in hurt. It took her an unknown amount of time of slowly working her eyes open to adjust to the light so that it didn't hammer her skull further. Now she knew why so many pictures of her father in his younger years had him wearing dark sunglasses in daytime pictures, if this was what a hangover was like. She looked around the room, not taking long at all. A dirty piece of carpet for a bed, and otherwise it was a concrete box that would be tight for an adult, and was merely small for her young body. A single barred window, letting in sunlight, and a steel door with a little slot in the bottom were the only other things to see that weren't concrete
Morgan Stark: How Far From The Tree September 10th, 2025 Stark Residence “Moooooooooooooooom, at this rate, I might as well do a baking soda volcano. Except that stinky Mikey Peterson is already doing one.” Morgan whined with all the sense of entitlement that an 8-year old could bring up. She had worked weeks on the project before school even started, aiming to prevent last year’s debacle that had gotten her expelled from her first school. The fire hadn’t even been that large, anyhow, and it wasn’t her fault that the classroom was right next to the library. “No, and that’s final. How did you even build yourself a set of power armour?” Virginia “Pepper” Potts-Stark stated and asked. The CEO of Stark Industries was rushing around and really didn’t need to be distracted by her daughter again, especially when a security team was busy boxing up the petite suit of armour the parent and child were arguing about. “I built it in Dad’s garage, from a box of scraps.” Morgan said
I crawled forward, trying to walk as well as I could with my leg feeling busted up, vision going in and out from the pain. I could see another car, somehow pristine in this hellish landscape of fire, brimstone, and broken highway, but no, it isn’t pristine, the body is dented and scratched up like it had been used like a battering ram. The pitted chrome decal on the side advertised that the car was a Dodge Dart Demon, appropriate for where I currently was. The over-sized bumpers were not stock, nor was the external horn on the roof. Was this Hell’s idea of a police car or something? Horns, hooting, and hollering came from behind me, the chasers were getting closer, always on my back. I don’t hesitate, and throw open the driver’s side door, and a skeletonized body falls out, tattered rags that once were clothing caught in joints keeping him together, and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand. I pull him out of the car, climb in, and jerk the shotgun out of his blackened fingers
Return of the Lone Wanderer - 19 by CanRay, literature
Literature
Return of the Lone Wanderer - 19
One must realize that the first thing about the Super Sledge is that it isn’t just “an engine block on a stick”, as I’ve heard it described time and again. It has quite a number of kinetic enhancing features that allows it to dent in and wreck tank armour. Those features were now working against each other. Autumn's factory-fresh version with all of its components brand spanking new, or Fawke’s with its extensive customizations and jury-rigs. Both heads met up, the shafts flexed and soon, soon, soon, I kept hoping that the explosive effect would be soon, but the shafts flexed impossibly, until we were helmet
The Last Ride Of The Monster by CanRay, literature
Literature
The Last Ride Of The Monster
My eyes are closed as I dream. I feel the vibration of The Monster’s heart, her wonderful engine. The jolts in the steering wheel from the front wheels, and the shifter aching to go into the next gear. As long as my eyes are closed, I’m just driving. And what I experience is a dream.
Reality crashes into me with the force of a pick-up truck going ninety. My eyes open, looking over at the demon rednecks screaming, hooting, and hollering up a storm. There has to be a dozen of them in the bed of the truck alone, and another group crammed into the cab, too many. All screaming at me to join them. I let go of the screaming skul
The "woman" of my dreams (nightmares) is someone I can feel. I know her inside and out. Flathead V-8, Blower, Supercharger, Turbochargers, Custom Transmission. Hydraulic Suspension. Armstrong Steering. Her tires are runflats, stolen from a jeep. Trunk full of guns and a larger gas tank.
I feel her interior, leather and bare steel, no fabric, no carpet. Custom pedals. Custom steering wheel. Custom shifter. Custom enough that the Ford plant would never recognize her.
She ran rich, leaded petrol. And she drank it more than a Canadian drank beer. She loved the highway, hated the tight corners. She wanted room and lots of it. Compe
The Monster I was in started out life as a 1949 Mercury Eight Coupe. Two doors, hardtop, stretched nose, frenched lights, blower out the hood and insulated turbocharger powered by exhaust. She ran rich, occasionally spouting out flaming bits of unburned fuel out of the pipes; she wasn’t dropped as the suspension clearance was needed for the streets that she took to. The Ford factory would never have believed what had been done to the old flathead V-8 that was the car’s heart and soul. Push button ignition and four-on-the-floor standard transmission was her mind. Whitewalls were her feet. A quarter-mile car, a highway star, n
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OK, so... I'm a Cyberpunk author. Been published and everything. I grew up with a hippie, a earth child, and a biker for parents that I had to raise as a single child. I feel for the world. Yet, this very day, I'm accused of being a Fascist Bootlicker. Because I take COVID, which is still around, seriously. And, my mind just goes, *TILT*. I hate the moving goalposts that my mental health throws at me. Usually this'd just roll off me, but for whatever reason, it's grabbed hold of my brain and just holds on tight. I'm going to do what I always suggested in my Tech Support days, and try switching myself off and on again. (IE: Have a nap.)
So, dA is going the AI Art route of art stealing and increasing facial recognition capabilities of an already overpowered observational state around the world. Facebook has put me in Facebook Jail for a week for talking about Star Wars or my dead buddy from Chile. LiveJournal is as dead as MySpace. And out of Russia. I'm too ugly for Instagram. And Twitter is... Yeah. COVID killed my socializing, and I'm feeling more and more isolated all the time. Also being reminded we're getting the crappy kind of Cyberpunk, all the horrors of it without any of the "positives". And, since I caught COVID earlier this year, I haven't really been able to write. Which, yeah. Where are you folks going? Because I'm feeling very, very lonely here...
I caught Covid in March. Other than tiny bits, I haven't been able to write since. I just tried to write professionally, an attempt at making myself better. I failed. So, another piece of my soul, gone, forever, to poor mental health. And there is no help or support for me other than people asking, "What does Help look like for you?" and "There is no magic pill... ... Here, new medication." If I disappear and am never seen again, don't be surprised. I wasn't able to find a lot to fight for in the end.