Dring. Dring. Dring. Always three. Always 3 AM. Waking her.

Her camera points to the curb. Set motion detection. She replays the footage. Gray shadows reveal a blur—there, a flicker, her daughter rings her bell, pedals away to where the driver clipped her.

Tomorrow, she’ll adjust to sports mode.

Anne Anthony credits her steady diet of comic books for her ardent belief in superpowers. Her stories have been published in Bull, The Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Magazine, Longleaf Review and elsewhere. Her micro-fiction, It’s a Mother Thing, was nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 by Cleaver Magazine. See more at linktr.ee/anchalastudio.