“Canary in a Coal Mine”

A few years ago I wrote a short story (short for me, in any case, around 8K words) forMatthew Wayne Selznick’s The Sovereign Era: Year Oneanthology. It was called“Every Breath You Take.”It’s the story of high school senior Christian Murphy, who has it bad for a foreign exchange student named Stacey… ‘but in a world where thousands of people are learning they possess unique, incredible powers, what exactly stands in the way of Christian getting what he wants?’

Last Fall,...