The Intern
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Last published Thu, Apr 10, 2025
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In a world where Olympus sits on the UN, vampires vacation in Macao, and Blockbuster delivers to Camelot, professional superheroes abound. More glamorous than Hollywood, exciting than pro sports, and profitable than both times ten, it's the industry everyone wants in on, and Maris Greensley is no exception. She wants in so badly, she agrees to work a whole year under superpowered criminal Deadline just to get a shot. Maris will break into superheroics, even if she has to break laws to do it.
Only, one problem: Deadline is having none of it. A premiere mercenary in the city's intergang power struggles, the only thing he can't terminate is Maris's employment. The standoff begins. As fights with spell-slinging gangsters, gwerewolves, and interdimensional hell beasts break out, Deadline aims to break the spirit countless rejections couldn't crush. Will he drive Maris out? Will Maris outlast Deadline? Or will time spent together show that Maris's dream of working with heroes might be closer than she thinks?
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