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Dial-Up Demon

Every time Jax dies, he comes back stronger. The catch? It's eating him alive. Orphaned at four. Dropout at sixteen. Four months behind on rent. He survives on classified ads and bus fare, scraping by in a Philadelphia that'd rather forget he exists. It's 2002. Center City drinks lattes and talks stocks. Everyone else gets the demons; twisted things that crawl out of the tech garbage the dot-com bust left behind. Old monitors. Dead servers. The toxic stuff nobody wants, dumped in neighborhoods nobody cares about. The Demonic Control Bureau handles the big infestations. The rest goes to freelancers like Jax, who've learned that "licensed contractors only" is more of a suggestion. Then a routine job goes wrong. Jax wakes up in a government facility with blood on his hands, gaps in his memory, and something under his skin that definitely wasn't there before. The DCB makes him an offer: steady pay, hot meals, and a real bed. All he has to do is hunt demons for them instead of against them. It's the best deal he's ever gotten. So why does it feel like a trap?

StaticArchitect · Urban
12 Chs

Gods On Payroll

Jude Miller was the mascot of his friend group. The guy you send on beer runs. The invisible man. Then he took a bullet to the head in a gas station robbery. Usually, that's the end of the story. For Jude, it was just the orientation seminar. In 2025, superheroes are incorporated. Titan sells barbecue sauce. Ironclad films insurance commercials. The world is safe, the merchandise is moving, and nobody talks about what's crawling out of the cracks. Hell is leaking. And the corporate heroes are too worried about Q3 earnings to notice. Enter the Angelic Council. They don't need a hero, they need a contractor. Jude wakes up in a fluorescent-lit Purgatory, offered a deal by a cynical case manager named Bob: Stay dead, or clock back in. But Heaven doesn't hire heroes. It hires expendable assets. And the contract has fine print. Now Jude's back in Philly with a divine quota to fill, a weapon forged from holy fire, and a GPA that's circling the drain. He has to hunt demons, lie to his friends, and save a world that never noticed he existed. Every hero has an origin story. Jude just has a job.

StaticArchitect · Urban
32 Chs