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To Those Who Hear the Call
To Those Who Hear the Call
To Those Who Hear the Call
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Graviton, a disillusioned student in an MFA program for superheroes, struggles to finish his thesis while thwarting the dastardly plans of Edward DaVinci Meowington III.

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Release dateMay 20, 2018
ISBN9781386862925
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    To Those Who Hear the Call

    Why now? Out of all possible moments in all possible universes, why this one? Why am I here? Graviton sat on the raised lip of an old, five-story building, ignoring the diluvial rain. A second year Master’s student in FCU’s Heroics/Villainy program, he needed to practice his monologuing. He’d thought tonight’s ambience would have helped, and had ignored this week’s required readings when he’d heard the weather reports. He was wrong.

    The rain tortured the thin, metal access door, horizontally flush with the tarred roof; stifled thunder filtered through a city skyline barely visible in the gray; and instead of alliterative soul-searching he’d spent the last few hours kicking his legs and mindlessly repeating the questions his workshop instructor, Electroflex, had suggested.

    Graviton wore street clothes—torn jeans and a Modest Mouse T-Shirt under a denim jacket—having little desire to wear his uniform, proudly or otherwise. Most days the black and midnight blue ensemble, emblazoned with an electric blue funnel of the kind used to diagram black holes in high school textbooks, only pissed him off. He glared at the drone hovering nearby. It was small, unobtrusive, basically a digital camera that recorded him constantly. Every night,

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