Galactic Man wasn’t the only one convinced his son had come back to life. Back in Boca Raton, Florida, at the Boca Raton Bible Church, a Catholic priest was spreading the word of God to his congregation. “Of course, we’re not all gathered here today on this Holy Sunday for the sole purpose of shaming […]

Galactic Man carried his daughter up to her room on the second floor. He set her down on her bed, letting her take a nap. She was, of course, a little old to be napping in the middle of the day. But clearly she’d earned the break. He gingerly closed her door. Then, he went […]

Bailey wanted to cry, that’s all. Crouched there in the living room, head buried in her knees, back up against the wall, her body fought her. It wanted to shake. It wanted to cry. But she was Galactic Man’s good little girl, and she wasn’t about to cry. Not when he was sure to come […]

Galactic Man loved the bullets. They pinged off his chest, ricocheting into the air. One shattered the window of his lovely home, another whizzed harmlessly through the leaves of an alder tree. Galactic Man smiled, not rushing. He would get to the shooter, but in his own time and at his own pace. He could’ve […]

Prometheus never was the same, after his meeting with Anne. Oh, sure. A lot of his life’s exterior details were the same. Prometheus was still running businesses, trading stocks, tinkering with his mech suit and beating up bad guys. Sharise was still around, The Superbuds were still active. If you’d asked anyone from the public, […]

Anne sat in the graveyard, staring at a tombstone. Shade had been cremated, her ashes taken away by some relative Anne didn’t know. Anne would never see her friend again — not alive, of course. But she wouldn’t even get to see Shade’s ashes. So she sat in the graveyard, sun beating down on her. […]

For reasons Jennifer chose not to divulge, there would be a couple weeks before the Galactic Man Kill Squad’s first meeting. That gave her a lot of time by herself. Time to learn that she’d flunked three of her classes due to non-attendance (thus getting suspended from the summer semester). Time to think about everything […]

“What do you want?” Anne asked, leaning back in the hardback office chair. Jennifer leaned forward. “The same thing you want.” Anne shook her head, letting out an exasperated laugh. “What do I want?” “You’ve thought a lot about how to defeat superheroes, haven’t you?” “Supervillains.” Anne’s palms were sweaty. “Is that true?” Anne shrugged. […]

Anne felt a weird mix of emotions, sitting in Jennifer’s office. On the one hand, she was happy that much of this was behind her. She could see the light at the end of the tunnel. On the other hand, she still couldn’t go to bed yet. She couldn’t rest. She saw that more trouble […]