stirrings of spring

The pines are warped. Not by wind, and the branches of the leafless trees about them are visible, faintly, but winter reveals how the lack of sunlight killed off the lower boughs in strange patterns.

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supers and setting up the setting

If you decide to write your own superheroes, and escape the behemoths of Marvel and DC, in a contemporary-ish setting -- I urge you to make it an alternate history.

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