from Movie Nite ACT VII

Jenn Marie Nunes
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We are both superheroes. We have costumes & names & a team of other superheroes but we’re the superheroes whose powers don’t work right. I can disappear whenever I want & you can shoot fireballs but I can’t control where I reappear & sometimes your fireballs come out dust bunnies. The bad guys are after us & I disappear & reappear on the ledge of a twenty-second story window & you have to use your dust bunnies to make a cushion to catch me. Every time you shoot a fireball the whole pile of dust bunnies goes up in flame & you have to start over & I think it seems possible we’ll get the timing right as I pinwheel my arms & begin to fall.

Jenn Marie Nunes is the author of 3 chapbooks, including OBJECT REFERENCE NOT SET TO AN INSTANCE OF OBJECT from dancing girl press. Her work has recently appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Finery, and Southeast Fiction, and she is co-editor of TENDE RLOIN, an online gallery for poetry.