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Dead Signal: When the City Learned to Bleed

The last thing they teach you in Taekwondo is to stay in control. But what happens when the whole world goes mad? Alex Calderon knows about control. His life is built on it. The clean lines of a perfect stance, the steady breath before a strike, the quiet order of a life spent mastering his own chaos. When his city breaks apart in a wave of mindless violence, that control is all he has left. The things moving in the streets now do not feel pain. They do not get tired. They only hunger. Stuck with his tech smart but panic prone roommate Jonah, Alex has to turn the art he learned for self discipline into a brutal tool for survival. Every alley hides a threat. Every can of food is a treasure. Every other person left alive is a mystery. And the monsters are not just out there. They are changing. Getting smarter. Waiting in the dark. This is not a story about heroes. It is a story about people who are left. It is about the heavy weight of a water bottle, the value of one bullet, and the slow, terrible price of staying human when the world is begging you to become a monster. Dead Signal is a raw, real trip into survival horror where every choice is a gamble and every breath might be your last. It is for fans of the desperate reality of The Last of Us, the tactical fear of DayZ, and the endless dread of Project Zomboid. Step into the collapse. The first scream does not cost a thing. The silence that comes after will cost you everything. From new author FzShun, a fresh voice in end of the world fiction.
FzShun · 4.1k Views
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HELLFIRE IN GOTHAM: A Spirit of Vengeance Crackfic

Marcus Chen was having a perfectly ordinary day until a bus disagreed with his continued existence. One moment he was a twenty-something data entry clerk with strong opinions about comic book power scaling and a seven-dollar latte he never got to finish. The next moment he was dead, floating in cosmic darkness, and being informed by an apologetic universal bureaucracy that his death was a "clerical error" and that compensation would be provided. The compensation? Rebirth in the DC Universe with the full powers of the Ghost Rider—the Comic Ghost Rider, not the nerfed movie version, meaning he's approximately as overpowered as a being composed entirely of hellfire and divine vengeance should be. The location? Gotham City. Of course. Marcus tries to keep his head down. He really does. He gets a crappy apartment, a soul-crushing night job, and a firm resolution to avoid the cape community entirely. But when the Joker decides to throw a murder party right outside his window, the Spirit of Vengeance awakens, and Marcus does what any reasonable comic book fan would do when confronted with DC's most unkillable villain: He permanently solves the problem. What follows is a gleefully unhinged tale of supernatural vigilantism, traumatized supervillains, and one man's increasingly futile attempts to maintain a secret identity while his alter ego systematically dismantles Gotham's criminal ecosystem. The Joker gets Penance Stared into oblivion. Bane learns that chemical enhancement means nothing against eternal hellfire. Ra's al Ghul discovers that six hundred years of sin makes for a VERY long judgment. Batman gets lectured about his prep time delusions and why Superman is objectively better than him in every way. Harley Quinn develops an extremely unhealthy obsession with "Bone Daddy." Catwoman gaslights herself into romantic feelings for a flaming skeleton. And Poison Ivy, of all people, decides to quit villainy and take up therapeutic gardening. Meanwhile, Marcus just wants to eat his Hot Pockets in peace and maybe buy a new coffee maker. Featuring: A protagonist who is canonically too powerful to be stopped and knows it Batman finally being told that his "no killing" rule has consequences The complete destruction of the "Batman can beat anyone with prep time" argument Multiple villains experiencing genuine character development through sheer terror Constantine showing up and immediately regretting every life choice that led him to this moment Damian Wayne getting the humbling he desperately deserves A secret identity that actually STAYS secret (because Marcus refuses to be one of THOSE protagonists) harems, because Marcus has standards and also no social skills HELLFIRE IN GOTHAM is a love letter to overpowered isekai fiction, a gleeful takedown of comic book plot armor, and a surprisingly heartfelt exploration of what happens when someone with actual cosmic authority shows up in a universe where the villains keep escaping and the heroes keep letting them. The Spirit of Vengeance has come to Gotham. The monsters should start running. "I just wanted to eat my pizza and not die again. The universe had other plans." — Marcus Chen, reluctant vessel of divine judgment and former data entry clerk
Axecop333 · 9.9k Views