Sin and Error Pining and Other Seasonal Tales from iHero Entertainment
By Sean Taylor
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Enjoy this special collection of holiday stories from the superhero universe of iHero Entertainment and Cyber Age Adventures. Stories feature fan-favorite characters The Grandstander, Ms. Futura, The Boom Machine, and Starlight.
“Sean Taylor’s stories focus less on the obvious trappings of the genre, instead homing in on the conflicted, flawed human beings for whom greater-than-mortal powers don’t convey greater-than-mortal morality.”
—Tom Brevoort, Executive Editor, Marvel Comics
“Hitting a heavy beat on the ’human’ in superhuman, Taylor’s stories pulse with a visceral reality. The biggest villains his heroes face might be their own bad habits; their greatest challenges are working through relationships—not surviving the battle. ... lives in the place where modern fiction meets mythology.”
—Barbara Randall Kesel, Alien vs. Predator, WildC.A.T.s, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales
Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor is an award-winning writer of stories. He grew up telling lies, and he got pretty good at it, so now he writes them into full-blown adventures for comic books, graphic novels, magazines, book anthologies and novels. He makes stuff up for money, and he writes it down for fun. He’s a lucky fellow that way. He’s best known for his work on the best-selling Gene Simmons Dominatrix comic book series from IDW Publishing and Simmons Comics Group. He has also written comics for TV properties such as the top-rated Oxygen Network series The Bad Girls Club. His other forays into fiction include such realms as steampunk, pulp, young adult, fantasy, super heroes, sci-fi, and even samurai frogs on horseback (seriously, don’t laugh). However, his favorite contribution to the world will be as the writer/editor who invented the genre and coined the term "Hookerpunk." For more information (and mug shots) visit www.taylorverse.com.
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Sin and Error Pining and Other Seasonal Tales from iHero Entertainment - Sean Taylor
Sin and Error Pining and Other Seasonal Tales from iHero Entertainment
©2017 Sean Taylor
Published by Sean Taylor at Smashwords.
Cover art courtesy of Wiki Commons.
ISBN 9781370667611
These stories originally appeared in Cyber Age Adventures Magazine and are collected in Sean Taylor's short story collection Show Me A Hero by New Babel Books. For more information or to order copies of that book, visit Amazon or find links on Sean’s writer’s blog at www.badgirlsgoodguys.com.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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Table of Contents
Praise for Show Me A Hero
Dedication
Acknowledgments
It’s Christmas Baby, Please Come Home
Nor Doth He Sleep
Sin and Error Pining
The Ghost of Christmas Past
About the Author
Praise for Show Me A Hero
Sean Taylor’s stories focus less on the obvious trappings of the genre, instead homing in on the conflicted, flawed human beings for whom greater-than-mortal powers don’t convey greater-than-mortal morality.
—Tom Brevoort, Executive Editor, Marvel Comics
Show Me a Hero delivers a series of stories that are dangerous, intriguing, fun and lathered with that sense of character readers will be sure to love. Once you’re done reading, you’ll know you read a well-crafted, fully rounded piece of work.
—Dan Jurgens, The Death of Superman, Teen Titans, The Metal Men
Hitting a heavy beat on the ’human’ in superhuman, Taylor’s stories pulse with a visceral reality. The biggest villains his heroes face might be their own bad habits; their greatest challenges are working through relationships—not surviving the battle. Show Me a Hero lives in the place where modern fiction meets mythology.
—Barbara Randall Kesel, Alien vs. Predator, WildC.A.T.s, Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales
’Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.’ Sean Taylor takes F. Scott Fitzgerald to heart in a selection of stories that reveal the high price even super heroes often pay to do the right thing. If there are any tears in these riveting tales— and, I’m afraid, there are—they do not diminish the courage of Taylor’s champions or the power of his writing. These are the quiet pains that stay with the readers and, hopefully, help them appreciate the heroes in their own lives.
—Tony Isabella, 1000 Comic Books You Must Read, Star Trek: The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse, creator of Black Lightning for DC Comics
I’ll sum it up as simply as I can: you’re going to care. That’s what Sean does with his characters and the stories they inhabit. He makes you care.
—Erik Burnham, Ghostbusters, New Warriors, A-Team: War Stories, Nanover
"A lot of writers talk about trying to introduce superheroes into the real world, but Sean Taylor does it better than most. Perhaps because his stories don’t just have plot, they have a point. They’re not about a series of circumstances and events, but about how those circumstances and events make the people living