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    A Matter of Size
    A Matter of Size
    A Matter of Size
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    A Matter of Size

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    Who is killing the world's smallest super-heroes? Down-on-his-luck masked avenger Man-Child takes the case, but can he save the remaining Small Wonders from a killer with a twisted crush fetish? Man-Child confronts the horrors of yesterday and today, learning a brutal lesson the hard way: even a size-changing super-hero can't afford to shrink from the darkness in the depths of his own heart.

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    "One of my favorite stories I've ever had the pleasure of producing on the show. Brilliant piece of writing." – Norm Sherman, Chief Editor and Producer, The Drabblecast

    Robert T. Jeschonek "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Starship series

    About the Author

    Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. His work appeared in three volumes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, winning the grand prize in Volume VI. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is due July 11, 2011 from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and is available for pre-order from Amazon.com.

    Visit Robert T. Jeschonek online at The Fictioneer website, www.thefictioneer.com. You can also find him on Facebook. For news on his latest online projects, visit the Tsetse Press website at www.tsetsepress.com.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateFeb 20, 2011
    ISBN9781458149800
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      Book preview

      A Matter of Size - Robert Jeschonek

      A Matter of Size

      A MATTER OF SIZE

      A Superhero Tale

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Blastoff Books

      CONTENTS

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      A Matter of Size

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Forced Retirement

      A MATTER OF SIZE

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

      http://bobscribe.com/

      Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

      www.benbaldwin.co.uk

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved by the author.

      Published by Blastoff Books

      An Imprint of Pie Press

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.piepresspublishing.com

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      ALSO BY ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Forced Betrayal

      Forced Retirement

      Forced Partnership

      Heroes of Global Warming

      Not-So-Fortunate Son

      Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume One

      Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume Two

      Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume Three

      Six Superhero Stories Volume One

      The Wife Who Never Was

      A MATTER OF SIZE

      They show it in slow motion three times from three different angles. The woman's bare foot plunging down through the frame, nails painted cherry red. Super-hero Flyspeck, the bug wonder, stuck to a pest strip tacked to the wood floor. The foot dropping closer, ever closer, as Flyspeck struggles to break free.

      Lousy porn music jangles in the background, someone noodling on an electric guitar. We can still hear Flyspeck's voice and the rasping of the pest

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