“All right.” I turned to the woman, who was sitting there with her cell phone out. She was still crying, her hair in her face. I walked over and squatted in front of her. “Listen, I need you to wait for the police, okay? Otherwise, he’s never going to pay for what…for what he almost did to you.”
She sniffed and nodded, clearly terrified. I didn’t really blame her, but I couldn’t deal with that at the moment.
“Good, then. We’re gone.” I grabbed Jesse’s arm and started running towards the night bus. We slowed after a block, just in time to see a cop car zip past, lights flashing but siren silent.
“Dude, you did it!” Jesse said, grinning from ear to ear and slapping me on the back.
I was a superhero!
Little did I know that, child of the digital age, the woman had pulled out her cell phone to take a grainy video of me. Within a day, I would be all over the news, pictured beneath headlines of “MYSTERIOUS SUPERHERO,” and the subject of talk shows, with physicists and scientists of all types denying the possibility of my existence.
Not that I can blame them, but hey, there’s video evidence. It’s a little harder for them to deny it when they have the eyewitness right there.
Jesse was pissed at me at first, but when neither of us ended up being talked to by police for a week or so, we calmed down—or, more precisely, he calmed down.
The way I see it? I’m a superhero. As long as I’m helping people, I don’t need to worry what anyone thinks of me.
At least, not until they know who I am, but that’s a different story.
About the Author
A.E. Clarke is still trying to figure out what to do when he grows up. In the meantime, he plays make-believe through his writing and in community theatre, and overthinks that make-believe in his psychology studies. He lives in Windsor, Canada, with his three cats.
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Full Table of Contents
Chapter One: Holly
Chapter Two: Jesse
Chapter Three: Holly
Chapter Four: Jesse
Chapter Five: Holly
Chapter Six: Jesse
Chapter Seven: Holly
Chapter Eight: Jesse
Chapter Nine: Holly
Chapter Ten: Jesse
Chapter Eleven: Holly
Chapter Twelve: Jesse
Chapter Fourteen: Jesse
Chapter Fifteen: Holly
Chapter Sixteen: Jesse
Chapter Seventeen: Holly
Chapter Eighteen: Jesse
Chapter Nineteen: Holly
Chapter Twenty: Jesse
Chapter Twenty-One: Holly
Chapter Twenty-Two: Jesse
Chapter Twenty-Three: Holly
Chapter Twenty-Four: Jesse
Chapter Twenty-Five: Holly
Chapter Twenty-Six: Jesse
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Holly
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Jesse
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Holly
Chapter Thirty: Jesse
Chapter Thirty-One: Holly
Chapter Thirty-Two: Jesse
Chapter Thirty-Three: Holly
Chapter Thirty-Four: Jesse
Chapter Thirty-Five: Holly
Chapter Thirty-Six: Jesse
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Holly
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Jesse
Epilogue: Holly
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