Author: Kurt Baumeister

A graduate of Emerson’s MFA program, Kurt Baumeister is the author of the forthcoming novel Pax Americana. A satirical thriller, the first in a trilogy, Pax Americana is set in the near future at the nexus of technology, politics, and religion. Currently at work on his second novel, a comic crime fantasy entitled Loki’s Gambit, Kurt has written for The Weeklings, The Good Men Project, and STIR Journal among others.
SUPERMAN’S LAST FLIGHT
Fiction, Kurt Baumeister

SUPERMAN’S LAST FLIGHT

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Morning in America. Cheap, plastic Venetians screen sunlight from the living room of a four hundred square foot two-bed. Shadows cast by thirty-watt overheads, thrift store furniture, and a wood-cabineted television splash the dirtied-white walls. Hitting at 186,000 miles a second, they strobe briefly then disappear—forgettable flashes of abstract art, small prayers chasing tiny dreams… Continue reading SUPERMAN’S LAST FLIGHT