No Capes - Now Available in Print & Ebook! - Sample Chapter One

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Hello Wattpad!!!!!!!

It's been a few minutes since this story was on Wattpad. One day I'll share the whole saga, but for now, I have **SUPER** EXCITING news:

NO CAPES is officially published and available in print and ebook! (As of August 5, 2025!) AHHHHH.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

If you were here reading NO CAPES back in our early days... THANK YOU!!! We would not be here without your amazing comments, SUPER chaos, and so so many theories.

Many things have gone down since NO CAPES was finished in 2015:

1.       A global pandemic.

2.       Three U.S. elections.

3.       I finished grad school.

4.       I got married.

5.       TikTok happened.

6.       Taylor Swift released ten albums. TEN.

7.       We all lost people and found new ones.

8.       STAR WARS got another trilogy.

9.       NO CAPES was optioned for a television show (and even got a script).

10.  THE BRO CODE was published.

11.  NO CAPES got stuck in development hell.

12.  I adopted two silly cats.

We survived existential crises, extreme weather disasters, and more Marvel movies than I can count. Some dreams got shelved. Other dreams turned into fuel.

In the middle of all that, y'all kept asking about NO CAPES. You helped me see what NO CAPES could be and how I could be a "real" writer. And now, after nearly a decade, NO CAPES is real. It's here. And there's series potential. (Be sure to send me your wildest sequel wishes)

I've put the first three chapters of the published version here on Wattpad since it's the first place NO CAPES could call home. The rest of NO CAPES is available in ebook and print, internationally. (Check out my profile and website for buy links—heads up that the paperback is $14.99 but the E-Book is only $4.99!)

If you could take a minute to review NO CAPES on Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, Fable, Storygraph, Goodreads, etc. etc., it would mean the world. Reviews help us get the momentum to reach more readers (We may even get momentum for the TV show again! Links in my profile).

So... here we are. Beginning once again with CHAPTER ONE. YAYYYYYYYYYYY.

(Oh, P.S. I had to change Hyperion Gold's Super name to Golden Ace because apparently, Hyperion Gold was copyrighted by Marvel. Oops.)





CHAPTER ONE


If you've ever been mugged, you know it happens on a night when all you want is to go home. Maybe you just finished babysitting the most unhinged six-year-old in town. Maybe her name is Lily. And maybe Lily's dad doesn't trust cyber money, so he pays you $200 in two crisp bills—you get double when she launches snot rockets on your pizza.

It's probably also raining.   

You know you're being followed too. You see the guy in a dark raincoat watching as you stash your earnings not-so-safely in your pocket, and the same Raincoat Guy appears on your bus ride home.

You want to shrug it all off as a coincidence. I almost do, until it fully hits me that I'm alone, out in the cold, at midnight. As soon as I step off bus 43 into the drizzling air, only to see Raincoat Guy do exactly the same...

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