Star Power
By Zoe Cannon
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Fat. Ugly. Stupid. At her high school, Jeanette is the target of every insult and the butt of every joke. But when she finds a magical artifact in the old junkyard, she knows this is her chance to be more.
Behind her superheroine mask, she saves lives and takes on supervillains. She even has friends… as long as she never lets them see under her mask.
But it will take more than superpowers to teach her to know her own worth.
This short story is 9800 words long. It is also available in The Fire Inside, a fantasy short story collection.
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Star Power - Zoe Cannon
Star Power
Zoe Cannon
© 2022 Zoe Cannon
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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and events are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Star Power
Either Jeanette’s eyes had finally adjusted to the darkness over the past few days—weeks? years?—or her mind had given up on reality and started filling the room with shapes of her own imagining. She was hoping for the second option. She didn’t want the bones in the corner of the room to be real, or the metal cage in the corner, big enough to fit a human, with rusted spikes lining the inside.
Although even that cage was starting to look like a welcome respite from standing with her arms chained above her head, unable to even lean against the wall to rest. With the necklace, she could have broken free, but of course they had taken that first. The cuffs felt looser on her wrists now—in her more lucid moments, she took bitter comfort in imagining telling all the jealous girls at school about her weight loss secrets once this was over—but they were nowhere near loose enough for her to slip free.
But the smell of the room was the worst part, worse even than the numbness in her fingers from standing like this for days. To be more accurate, the problem wasn’t with the room; it was with her. Days’ worth of stale sweat clung to her, warm and damp in the rolls of her skin, matting her hair to the back of her neck. And that was the least offensive odor that rolled up from her body, making her gag at the smell of herself. No one had bothered to hose her down yet today, and even when they did, she knew it wouldn’t completely get rid of the reek of her own bodily waste. Everyone at school always told her she smelled like shit. At least they weren’t here to get a whiff of her now.
Her nose had habituated as much as it could, but she still had to hold her breath every time the heating vent kicked on and started moving the air around. There was a clue for her: if her imagination had taken over, she would have been smelling something worth imagining, like the grass and motor oil of the abandoned junkyard instead. Which meant what she was seeing was real, too.
But in the next second, she wasn’t so sure. Because when the door opened, the dark silhouette, visible only as a muddy shadow against the blinding brightness of the hallway, spoke her name.
Not her alias, either, the one she wouldn’t even let herself think now that her defeat had proven she didn’t have any right to it—or the necklace, for that matter, or her new friends, or the title of hero. He used