Not Your Average Superhero.
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Last published Thu, Mar 29, 2018
Not all Supers want to be heroes. Especially not me. I just want a quiet life, where I can hate everyone from a far and never be in the spotlight for my unusually powerful gift. My plan is working for me just fine.
Well, it would be working for me just fine; if I hadn't stopped a cold-blooder killer from shooting my town's biggest young hero on stage, in front of hundreds of people. Now - because my life just isn't messed up enough - I'm helping the victim, Chase Reynolds; a senior at Hayeswood High and all round pain in the derrière, find and catch his almost killer, before they make another attempt on his life.
Great.
Ever wonder if you make plans just so they can be crushed under the boot of some greater, omnipotent force? Yeah, me neither.
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