CODEX OMNIVERSA

Unity Kinkaid

In 1932, Unity Kinkaid was raped and gave birth to a baby girl.

The scandal was silenced.

The baby was adopted, but Unity knew nothing of any of this. She’d slept through the entire ordeal.

Monolith

In the Summer of 1932, unemployed veterans marched on Washington to claim their congressionally mandated bonus following the Great War.

When they refused to leave, the government turned tanks, tear gas and bayonets against them. One hundred were killed.

Under deplorable working conditions, employees of the O’Grady Textiles Company held secret meetings about forming a union. On December 14, 1932…

Then, on Christmas Day, Alice Cohen’s fiancée, Peter, was murdered by the same gangsters. She followed her friend, Hans, and Rabbi Rava to a dark tunnel…

While the Rabbi was a librarian and scholar in Prague, he had used his knowledge of a text called the Sefer Yetzirah to create a supernatural creature. A golem. And he did it again in New York City. Alice wondered…

Peter, a kind man deserving of a better life, a long life. At the time, I wondered if some spark of him could be housed inside the terrifying monster I helped create.

During the Great Depression, “Monolith” sought vengeance on behalf of a community of Jews. When it had completed its tasks, it went into a state of stasis…

…as the rest of the world moved on around it.

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In Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster published an amateur magazine called, Science Fiction. Issue #3 included a story called… “The Reign of the Superman.”

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