“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to P-Con” is a charity anthology to raise funds to support P-Con year-to-year. I have a superhero short story / novella (20k words) in it entitled “Teamup Road Trip.” Pick it up on the ‘zon as a paperback or an ebook.
Excerpt
Annie ran to the back of her car, slammed the truck lid down, and grabbed her keys out of the lock while Onyx ran around the car to the passenger side. Jumping in the driver’s seat. Annie started the car and got it moving forward before Onyx finished closing the door on her side, the car behind them riding their bumper. Annie had to stop nearly immediately behind the rest of the cars being evacuated out of the other lanes.
“I got to go help.” Onyx reached to reopen the door.
“No, don’t you dare,” Annie commanded. “There are cameras all over the place. They will know who you are.”
“I can haze out, and we are close enough to Austin they will think I am answering the alarm.”
“It’s an energy.”
“I’ll set to absorb.” Hot air shimmered around her, browning the edges of her cheap t-shirt and shorts. “Meet you at Buc-ee’s.” Onyx rolled out of the car in full haze mode, letting the door slam shut behind her, took to the air while her clothes and shoes fell off in ashes. She flew around the facility to come at it from the Austin side …