TIMELY TALES #12: TARGET PRACTICE

TIMELY TALES OF THE POSTHUMANS #12 - “TARGET PRACTICE”

KITTY BURROUGHS (W) • RANDY PINE (COVER)

• Equal opportunities don’t exist, and nobody knows that better than Ida Mae “Sully” Sullivan. If not for her uncanny aim and limited precognition, the Academy’s doors would have been closed to someone like her. She doesn’t like to make eye contact, she hasn’t been conditioned to reflexively smile, and she spends the majority of her time training by herself– according to many of her peers, this makes her one of the biggest “b-word"s on campus. Sully didn’t let that bother her, since she’d decided early on that she was at Maillardet’s to shape her career, not to make friends.

• But the handful of people she did call her friends– the people she thought she could trust– made the executive decision that she wasn’t good enough to stick with them to the end. They didn’t tell her that to her face, but she can see what’s coming– it’s what she does, after all. Desperate for options, Sully volunteered to take on one of the new Beta students as her partner. Anything would be better than her current prospects, she thought.

• Maks Petrov is not the backup plan she needed, but she’s stuck with him…barring any accidents, that is. This is Sully’s last shot, and she won’t let him blow it.

• One-Shot/Rated T