Acolytes of the Apocalypse | Prologue - Part I | "The Manipulator"
Behind the façade of immaculate steel towers was a decrepit and neglected ghetto which ate at the city from the inside. broken glass and forgotten junk littered the streets and the few working street lights threatened to fade as their light flickered.
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 3 - "Eyes"
To the wolf guy and his roommate, the supers were goddamn movie stars; popular folks with peculiar powers that set them above the rest and gave all of the folks in the ghettos and squalor something to aim for: perfection. bullshit.
Cadi, Prologue
Or, perhaps more accurately, a ghetto. walled off from the remainder of the city. the inhabitants were not free to roam beyond the walls. they certainly made the best of what they had and worked together to care for one another.
Threads - The Thickening
"four thousand men off to london, armed to the teeth with challenger mk3 130 millimetre canons and light assault rifles to clear up and catalogue the ghettoes. yeah, i'm sure they're in high spirits."
Hunter of Worlds: Phase1-Chapter7
Why do you think i live in such a ghetto?" **_"i thought your powers could only surface with the proper genetic catalysts... medicines, cell splices.."_** "that's just what they want you to think, sugar.."
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 12 - "Memory"
Mayor belle made sure that poverty wasn't an issue, but if there had been a ghetto in bellemont, that's where brady had been.
The mysterious, primitive killer Chapter 1
Ven hated the city that he lived in, it was filled with careless people, rude pedestrians and many ghetto areas where people were known to be killed or shot.
The World We Live In: Chapter 39
I hope the ghetto people knows how to not interfere." "we still have one more thing to do here before getting to asran. akandi, right? where is the orphanage?"
Rumination
I feel as if i'm destined for the body of the former, and the egress of the latter--black lad who crawled out of the ghetto and a divorced family, to seek success in art and business, over sports.
Alone
Some good things have been happening in redmond but it still remains a ghetto for metahumans and the scum of the norms. she nods, and then looks quite alert; "say you ok? you look like death warmed up". i stare out at that view.
My Story...
When i get about three quarters the way back home i realise that i was in the west ghetto's gang side of town which i didn't look like i was in so i started to walk a bit faster but soon enough i ended up face to face with 8 of them all with black hoods nd
Inheritence -Chapter 1-
It wasn't shabby, nor a particularly rough part of the english countryside, it just seemed like ghetto-chic had taken hold of it by the throat. quaint.