Secret Identity
by Chris Weikel

The world can be unbearable when the school bully paints a target on your back.

For 16-year-old JT, it means retreating to the safer but terrifically exciting world of spandex-clad super heroes he’s created.

Things get complicated, though when his imaginary, square-jawed hero Paladin suddenly has competition in the form of the very real, but equally square-jawed and dazzling new kid in school, Trey.

Lines between the real world and the imaginary start to blur, and JT may become a casualty of his own storytelling.

When adolescent fantasies come in heroic proportions it’s difficult to keep them under wraps.