Secret Identities

By Monica Rosehill

When loner Sarah accidentally discovers her classmate is a superhero, she doesn’t think much of it. If there was one thing Sarah knew, it was how to hold her tongue. But when that same superhero starts dragging her into his business it’s not just his secrets at risk. Join Sarah as she stumbles into fun, friendship and an above average amount of chaos.

Secret Identities is a webcomic full of humour, superpowers and LQBTQIA+ themes that can be read for free on the author's website. This eBook contains six exclusive short stories about the characters and a sneak peak of season two. It does not contain the webcomic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Monica Rosehill
• Release date: Sep 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9780473642167

Monica Rosehill

I am a webcomic artist and author in my early twenties living in New Zealand. By day I am a mechanical engineer working towards a PhD. By night I'm usually sleeping. But also during the day I am working on several YA books and season two of my webcomic.

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Monica Rosehill

Secret Identities: Short Stories

First published by Monica Rosehill 2022

Copyright © 2022 by Monica Rosehill

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Preface

I. SHORT STORIES

Sarah’s Parents - A Super Love Story

Jason - Origins

Sarah - A Friend

Dani - Sane Science

Carl - Jail Break

Kai - The Swap

II. SNEAK PEAK

Season 2 - Arc 1 - Back At It

About the Author

Preface

Secret Identities is a webcomic published online. In this book you will six exclusive short stories about the characters and a sneak peak of season two. The actual webcomic can be read online at https://mrosehill.com, webtoon canvas or on my social medias.

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Short Stories

Ever wonder how Sarah’s parents got together? What it was like for Jason when he got his powers? What Dani did during the zombie outbreak? Find out all that and much more in this collection of exclusive short stories that explore the characters in Secret Identities.

Sarah’s Parents - A Super Love Story

Part 1

Sane Scientist did not like watching the local news. Watching the local news meant finding out about local disasters. It meant seeing local villains up to no good. If she wasn’t a superhero, she wouldn’t care. But being a superhero, watching the local news meant she had to drop whatever much more interesting thing she was doing, change into her super-suit and leave her science lab.

She hated leaving her science lab. Her science lab was colourful. It was busy. It was engaging. In fact, experimenting in her science lab was about the only thing Sane Scientist ever found engaging. It was when she could create her own problems to study. Problems that required more than a split second of thought. The outside world was boring. There was nothing to think about outside her lab. Nothing to challenge her.

Yet, when the city needed her, she always left her lab. She always saved the day. That’s what superheroes did, and while some days Sane Scientist wasn’t sure why, she was a superhero. In the beginning, she’d decided being a hero was the path of least resistance. She’d thought she’d be bothered less as a hero than as a villain. Now she wasn’t so sure. If only she could have avoided both altogether. But she’d had to make a choice. You couldn’t have the power to invent anything and not establish your alignment. If she hadn’t picked hero, she would have been labelled a villain as the default. Brilliant scientists had a rather bad reputation in this city.

She hated the local news, but she had to watch it, because she had to know when she was required. If she didn’t leave the lab of her own fruition, people would come to bother her inside it. People coming into her lab was far worse than her leaving it. Far, far, worse. So whenever she worked in her lab, she had the local news on in the background. Oh, how she counted the days until she could retire (3,528 days, if you wanted to know).

She had just been tinkering with a time travelling toaster prototype when the music signalling breaking news blared from the tv. Her eye twitched, but she kept working in the hope the news wasn’t something requiring her attention. She continued her calculation to figure out if the toaster body could survive the pressure of the time vortex as she listened to the newscaster. After several acts of minor mischief, Mr. Mindcontrol has firmly established himself as a villain today with his latest stunt. Sane Scientist was starting to worry her toaster would need some reinforcement. We go live now to outside the mayor’s office, where the mayor is being held hostage by his own mind-controlled security force. Sane Scientist sighed and put down her pen. Mr. Mindcontrol has released a statement insisting he will not free the mayor until his demands for new employer regulations are met. Sane Scientist pushed away from her desk and stood up. Unfortunately, something like that would require her attention.

As she changed into her super suit, Sane Scientist did a quick search of her database for information about Mr. Mindcontrol. She’d never met him before, but the name sounded familiar. From eyewitness accounts of previous incidents, it seemed that his mind control worked on some people and not others. Perhaps it was a willpower thing. Sane Scientist knew she’d be fine. Her mind was much too brilliant to be controlled. She donned her utility belt and picked a number of inventions to attach to it. Her powers weren’t directly good for combat, but the gadgets she created in advance were all she ever needed. When she was ready to go, she input the mayor’s office into her teleporter and was there at the push of a button.

She appeared a foot off the floor and fell into