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Imagine there is a world where people have super powers (or we can call them post-human abilities, gifts, etc.) but for one reason or another, there is not much motivation to use them for traditional superheroics. Instead, they use abilities for ordinary purposes, not drawing attention to themselves, not doing anything that would bring them under much scrutiny. What challenges would they face? What would they worry about? Can we make something interesting out of the super-mundane?
What I'm asking for is creativity. If you want, you can submit short stories, print art, paneled comics, or just a quick pitch for an idea.
The constraints:
1. Characters should have some superhuman ability (telekinesis, time travel, psychometry, etc.) that they use in a creative way without drawing much (if any) attention to themselves, or bringing themselves under scrutiny.
2. I'd like to avoid superheroics, villainy, super-villainy, terrorism, shadowy organizations and things like that if at all possible. I just don't want to cover material that's already been repeated ad nauseum for the last eighty years.
That's it. Now, my example, which I think would work well as a paneled comic:
A community college groundskeeper finds himself raking leaves on campus. When classes start, he finds himself alone and not observed, so he uses telekinesis to assist him in picking up, shredding, and bagging leaves, thereby saving himself an hour or so of work, so he can go back to the office and get warm for a while.
Or for another example...
A guy with time travel abilities utilizes them to perform street magic.
Please feel free to submit your ideas or content to me at racejackson@gmail.com, and we can work toward compiling something wonderful.
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