Raven hair and ruby lips, sparks fly from her fingertips…

A drawing of Hecate, a beautiful woman with black hair in a corset, holding a revolver in one hand and a magical flame in the other.

Mindy Tavoularis, aka Hecate, once a member of the superhero group Roundtable, is a fearsome magic wielder who never quite managed to gain public acceptance. No surprise, considering her mother is the sadistic, sorcerous talent Sophia Tavoularis, and her demented siblings comprise one of the most notorious organized crime families on the planet. Here she […]

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Story Fertilizer: Mermonsters and Blood Baths

This Story Fertilizer article was first published on May 6, 2014. I saw a couple of intriguing links on Google Plus the other day, both, I think, from the Suppressed Transmissions community. Besides being interesting in the creepy, paranormal fashion I find so irresistible, they’ve stimulated some story ideas that are now percolating. With that […]

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