MattHarris

A golden man screamed across the sky and laid waste to the Earth. 

He appeared out of nowhere, striking down cities with golden blazes of light. 

Then, he disappeared. Where he went nobody knows.

In the aftermath, the Powered emerged. Humans granted superhuman abilities that transcend all logic and physics. 

The world is in tatters, communities spread across the globe with limited contact, ruled by battles between humans and villains. 

All the while monstrous creatures known as the Wretches stalk the barren, scarred wasteland. 

With incredible powers of my own saving the world is a journey of putting one foot in front of the other.

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The Wretched: Ascent of An Anti-Hero

"Right," My mum said, "If you don't mind excusing me for a moment, I've just got to pop to the loo. 


With that she was gone, shuffling up the stairs before anyone else could even think of saying anything. I had a feeling that she might have gone to have a little cry, which only twisted the knife in my chest a little bit further. 


I heard one of the other chairs by the table scrape backward against the floor, so shut my eyes tight and pretended that I was sleeping. 


"About as convincing as a dog playing dead, that," Lauren said, her tone lighter than I'd heard it for a while, "Reckon my story convinced her?" 


I thought about it, it probably had but, "I don't exactly like lying to my mum." 


"Well yeah, we did all the lying for you. No harm no foul, right?" Lauren said, "Well, unless you want to tell her the truth, that is." 


"Well obviously not," I sniped back, "But I don't what you here…" 


I regretted saying it almost the exact moment the words came out of my mouth. 


Prison Break