Hope City is a place with a lot of heroes. Here, more than anywhere else in the world, people with supernormal powers gather to indulge dreams of larceny or of world conquest, and others fight the good fight to stop them. But there are other stories as well. Tales that involve heroes and powers well beyond the abilities of normal men, but that probably aren’t a part of the same world. A girl exploring an old quarry. A man who uses an unorthoadox outfit to fight crime. A heroine who can’t get taken seriously by the adults. A man who has nothing to fear. A hero wondering who was the first. This is a collection of superhero short stories that could have been part of the Hope City series, but have enough differences that they could be better read on their own.