Ben Muller has a burning secret--one he's kept to himself for too long now. How will those around him deal with it when he comes out at last, guns ablazing, so-to-speak, with the he's a pyrokinetic. That is to say, he possesses the ability to set things on fire with the mere application of mind power. Well almost, anyway. Leastwise, he can make things uncomfortably warm.Almost 7,000 wordsAlmost Science Fiction
R.W. Halverson (1968-), born and raised in Minnesota, has spent the last twenty years in Japan where he teaches conversational English and, when he's not napping between classes, writes fiction. He also writes under the name Rob Hal.