From the Harris Burdick collection. An imagining of Archie Smith Boy Wonder.

Our story isn't meant to be cool or exciting or adventurous or even heart wrenching or tragic. It's real. We tell it so that the world can know the truth. Not the truth about how we kicked butt and took names, but the truth about the people who lost their lives, their friends, and their families in the name of science. This is the story of how we met some of the greatest people on earth and how we basically saved the whole world. Really, this is the story of how we became heroes.

Six teens are devoted to a game with one rule: If a player gets tagged, they must change their life within the next fifteen minutes. The better the player, the bigger the change. One might give their car away, or punch the school bully. Another might change identities or sacrifice their virginity. Anything to keep evolving, to avoid fitting into a label or caring about the junk they own. But their quest for enlightenment has taken a rotten final turn - one of the players has murdered the game's creator, the teen prophet (cult leader?) David Bloom. Our narrator is being framed for the crime; can he clear his name and discover which of his lifelong friends is the murderer before he takes the fall? [sic] is a gritty teen murder mystery that delves into the psychology of enlightenment among the criminally dysfunctional.