To Ascend

The greatest dungeon crawl, IMO, is Dante’s Divine Comedy.  So you can imagine that my Catholic, geeky self has been enjoying World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.  (At time of writing I have not beat all of it yet).  Shadowlands’ tale starts with a raid on “the Maw” (Hell by another name) and after a harrowing escape […]

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Post Hallowtide

Sarah remembered that when she was little, people would dress up as ghosts, witches or goblins for Halloween.  Now Martians were all the rage.  People would smear themselves in all sorts of gross green makeup and try to add strange appendages to themselves.  Modern trick-or-treaters never got the green of real Martians right.  Martian green […]

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Trapped!

Previously on The Martian Muckraker: For months Sarah of Earth and C’therax of Mars traded information by interplanetary transmission to aid the cause of freedom on both sides of Earth’s Great Barricade.  Earthling authorities want Sarah, an influential political agitator, arrested or killed but lack the political consensus to do so.  C’therax and his allies […]

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