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So, I’ve spent most of the day editing the first part of Differently Super, which is the first seven chapters. I am mostly cleaning up the weird grammar, missing words, and clunky sentences. I’m surprised that I am so willing to edit my own work as in the past I’ve treated every word I’ve typed…
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Chapter 11 Beware the Undertow Robert and Luke were walking down the hall towards the administration wing in the Denver SUAVE HQ. That was a mouthful so the tended to shorten it to DQ. That way they could talk about it anywhere and all people thought they were talking about was ice cream. Although there…
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Chapter 10 The offer they couldn’t refuse Max was confused as to what exactly was going on. He had been since Detective Murphy had picked him up and taken him to a special part of the main headquarters of SUAVE in Denver. It was a small dark building on the east side of the campus.…
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Chapter 9 Meetings Old and New Sara heard the car’s engine as Robert pulled into the driveway. Thank, Jesus, they were home. She felt as if she’d been holding her breath ever since he’d left to get Mina early this morning. She always worried when he was doing something Super related. It was bad enough…
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Imagine a room in the basement of a random building. As the man enters, to his left are pamphlets for many different support groups and to his right is a table with coffee and donuts. The kindly old man who stands before the man hands him a specific pamphlet with the letters, P.A. on the…
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Chapter Eight Mina Interrupted Mina awoke hoping everything had being just a dream. When she saw the four white walls with a two way mirror on the wall opposite what passed for a bed, she knew it was unfortunately still her reality. She’d woken with the same hope for what felt like at least a…
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So, I just finished with what I am thinking of as Part 1 of my superhero novel. I am thinking of breaking it into four parts, The first is called Falling apart, and is how the superheroes found their way, either through bad luck or failure on missions, onto the team. The next part I…
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Chapter 7 Even college graduates get the blues. Max Blumenthal was smiling so much he thought that his face was going to hurt tomorrow. Everyone was up and celebrating and milling about congratulating the students, parents and professors. In the throng of bodies, Max tried to politely make his way to his family. Other…
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Chapter 6 Linoleum After his initial panic. Tortie looked around to find his way into the house. The front door was always an option, however as he would have to turn back into his human form, which was not practical. After all, a naked man skulking a suburban neighborhood at twilight was probably going to…
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Chapter 5 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Mina swallowed the last, smallest piece of the cake flavored door off the tip of her index finger. At last, she was finally done with job of eating that damn weird door. Now there was a hand sized hole about three feet up the door and nearly three quarters of…