Intolerant: Queer Superheroes Cancelled

How the Silver Champion Got Cancelled: a short story

Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen
Published in
4 min readApr 19, 2022

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The afternoon light through the kitchen window caught Orel as he bent to stir something on the stovetop, making his dark skin glow. Charles leaned on the kitchen island to watch him, and jumped at a sudden jangle in his pocket.

Charles picked up the ringing phone. “Hello?”

“Is this the Silver Champion? This is William Nelson, principal of Lakeside Elementary School.”

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Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen

Poet, lover, thinker, human. Poetry editor at Prism & Pen.