Way Worse

By Annalisa Conti

This is the eight episode of THE W SERIES, a collection of short stories.

Things get really hard for W, as the events of “What Could Go Wrong” keep unfolding under the superhero’s for once powerless eyes.
Between serious threats to W’s secret identity and safety, from completely unexpected sources, and former allies becoming armed hurdles, W will have to find new ways to strive in the superhero job.

Or otherwise keep busy at night.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Annalisa Conti
• Release date: Mar 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781732199231

Annalisa Conti

Annalisa Conti lives and writes in New York City, where she has been spending the last few years of her life. She is a woman who writes about women, real human beings facing drama and challenges, finding happiness and rewards, succeeding and failing. Normal people. If you like Jane Austen for her honest humor, Gillian Flynn for her descent into human darkness, and Elena Ferrante for her focus on storytelling, you will find Annalisa’s tales wildly entertaining. She recently published her third novel, NINE. It is a modern tale on motherhood, a unique story about pregnancy, its hidden fears, and its untold truths. Her second novel, AFRICA, was an Amazon Kindle #1 in its category. Reviewers say it is a “fascinating” “astonishing” story of a life-changing journey to the end of the world, “powerful and dramatic, and well integrated into this incredible “decorum””. Annalisa is also the author of ALL THE PEOPLE, a novel built around a woman’s secrets. Reviewers say “you cannot put it down”, it is “capturing reader’s attention since the very first lines”, and it has a “very deep and accurate psychological perspective”. She publishes quarterly episodes in the collection of short stories THE W SERIES, which describe the world of W, a superhero like no other. Reviewers say it is "a classic action story but somehow very different from anything else", with a "writing style packed of action and visual clues as if it was taken right out of a Marvel comic strip". The first ten episodes of THE W SERIES have been collected in W IS FOR WONDER.

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WAY WORSE

Copyright © 2018 Annalisa Conti

Cover art by Valeria Frustaci, 2018

All rights reserved.

Published by AEC Publishing LLC in New York

www.annalisaconti.com

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Acknowledgements

To Emmanuel, who always believes in me.

Way Worse

Run.

I love this time of the year, when it’s almost Memorial Day and the air is fresh at night. I love to take my own East River Express Highway, my route on the roofs, climbing and jumping from building to building. The view on the water and the sound of the wind rising from the ocean accompany my noiseless steps. I pace faster and faster on my way home. It’s not dawn yet, but I can feel it coming in the smells of the city waking up, in the noises of the buses resuming their runs across the Upper East Side. I can’t prevent a grin from deforming my face: