This is the excerpt of a short story “Portrait of a Young Zombie in Crisis” by Walidah, originally published in Obsidian’s Speculating Futures: Black Imagination & The Arts Volume 42 in 2016, then reprinted in the anthology Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2018.

“This was the 15th raid Superman had thwarted across the country. He never injured anyone, but he made sure no one was arrested. In Tucson, they fired bullets for one hour straight, until they ran out of ammo; Superman blocked or caught every single one.”