My Super Midlife Crisis

Steeven

Before I publish it this year, I'm posting My Super Midlife Crisis, one chapter a week, at JukePop serials.

The book is based on characters created by me and Harold Jennett.

You can go over there and read it each week for free:

jukepop.com/home/read/6134?chapter=0&sl=656

Also, I'd appreciate if you'd vote for the chapter each week (if you feel it worthy). You have to join JukePop to do so, but it's a quick and painless process and you only need an email address and username ... plus you can read a lot of other good stuff over there, and you can download their app and read it on your mobile device.

Most guys who go through a midlife crisis buy themselves a sports car.

Oliver Jordan gets super powers.



I'll also add, that's not the final cover, it's something I threw together for JukePop using some of Harold's artwork.

Steeven

Chapter Two is up.

Here's an excerpt:

THE BREAK ROOM WAS, thank the merciful gods above, devoid of people.

Oliver had requested that he be allowed to take his lunch as late in the day as possible for that very reason. He preferred to eat alone. It’s not that he didn’t like people; he just yearned for a bit of solitude to break up a day of talking to those in need. He had tried eating in his car at first, but found it difficult to juggle everything in such a cramped space, especially when he brought chili or soup. So, as he couldn’t afford to eat out every day, he’d had to make the break room work.

He made a beeline for his table of choice—all the way in the back corner—took a seat and unpacked his lunch: Bologna and cheese slathered in mayonnaise and nestled between two slices of store brand white bread served up with a small bag of generic potato chips. Looking at the two items on the table, he realized that he’d forgotten to grab a soda from the machine, which was on the other side of the room. He sighed and pulled himself to his feet.

Back at the table, soda bottle in hand, Oliver sat down once more and placed the bottle next to the sandwich.

“Dude!”

The word rang out across the all but empty room and Oliver’s stomach nearly dropped out from under him. There, striding across the break room floor, paper fast food bag clutched in one fist, was Luther Brodwell. He approached the table at a quick clip, a smile on his face and a bounce in his step.

Oliver wanted to cry.

You can read the whole chapter for free here:

http://www.jukepop.com/home/read/6134?chapter=2

And please vote! Thanks :smile:

TheHotWindBlowing

good work

Steeven

Thanks :smile: Chapter Three should be up a little later today.

Steeven

Chapter Three is up.

Here's an excerpt:

OLIVER MASHED THE BRAKE to the floor and the car slid to a screeching halt. Just inches beyond the bumper lay the cell phone tower, rocking for a moment before coming to rest, the steel bars melted and burnt at one end where it had separated from its base. Before Oliver could so much as breathe; a woman in a purple body suit leaped atop the fallen tower and hurled lightning bolts at a man in red and yellow.

Great, Oliver thought. Just what I need, a pair of Mighties in my way.

The woman, Lady Lightning, had the power to create bolts of lightning out of thin air, and then throw them at whatever she felt needed to be hit by a bolt of lightning: Bank vaults, armored cars, and–of course–her arch nemesis, Spitfire.

Spitfire was the man in red with yellow boots, gloves, and cape. He had the ability to breathe fire. Great searing gouts of it. It was fairly obvious that it was Spitfire and his lava breath that had toppled the tower.

Oliver rolled down his window, leaned his head out, and gave the horn a couple of really good honks.

“Come on!” he yelled to the two combatants. “Take this somewhere else! Some of us are going to be late for work!”

Want more?

Read the full chapter here:

http://www.jukepop.com/home/read/6134?chapter=3

And don't forget to vote :smiley:

Steeven

Oliver comes face to face with the General in Chapter 5 of My Super Midlife Crisis:

http://www.jukepop.com/home/read/6134?chapter=5&sl=641

Steeven

The General takes things to a new level in Chapter 6 of My Super Midlife Crisis:

http://www.jukepop.com/home/read/6134?chapter=6&sl=320

Steeven

The first 8 chapters of My Super Midlife Crisis are available to download for your Kindle or other eReading device (such as Nook) for free:

https://gumroad.com/l/tXLF

Steeven

Steeven said:

The first 8 chapters of My Super Midlife Crisis are available to download for your Kindle or other eReading device (such as Nook) for free:

https://gumroad.com/l/tXLF

Now you can get the eBook, for free, on iTunes as well as:

Barnes & Noble - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-super-midlife-crisis-steeven-r-orr/1121342239?ean=2940046612325

Kobo - https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/my-super-midlife-crisis-part-one

And Smashwords - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/524232

Steeven

Now available for free on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Steeven_R_Orr_My_Super_Midlife_Crisis_Part_One?id=TpwwBwAAQBAJ&hl=en

I'm interested to hear what anyone thinks of this super hero tale.