Drabble: Out of Retirement

Alphaman peered up at the towering inferno. He could hear the screams of the young woman trapped on the 99th floor. He sighed and turned to the pimple-faced International Superhuman Retirement Reserve employee. “Don’t you have anything new?”

“Sorry sir,” the kid said, “we just don’t have the funding anymore.”

Alphaman flew to the roof of the skyscraper, ignoring the hired actress’s pleas as he passed her. He looked out at the perfect world he had helped create – that didn’t need superheroes anymore.

He was going to need a more sinister name … and where did one hire henchmen nowadays?

Illustration by Penny Myles (see all the illustrators)

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