Nicholas Ahlhelm produces new super powered fiction, often in a serialized format like you see here with Lightweight. He lives in Eastern Iowa where he wishes the winters were just a bit less wintery. Learn more about his work at superpoweredfiction.com. To directly back his writing and get new serialized stories months before everyone else, support him at Patreon.com/ahlhelm.
The ongoing adventures of Kevin Mathis, the gravity-defying hero known as Lightweight! Driven to help the world, he uses his abilities to fight crime and the madmen that would reshape the world!
The age old struggle between the Morlocks and the Eloi becomes a full scale war in the heart of the city with Lightweight and Howl trapped in the middle! In a battle fought over two dark futures for him, Lightweight must find his own path, but with the threat of Black Death still looming, he might not survive to see it!
Athena. Bagheera. Flint. Air Raid. Beauty. Thief. Devil Boy. Solid. Wave. These are the men and women of Epsilon, the teachers and students of the Eastman Academy. But in the wake of their mentor's death, the team must rebuild, even as a greater threat looms on the horizon. In a new full length novel set in the Quadrant Universe, meet the strange heroes of a new world-changing team!
All things must be revealed! In the ninth chapter of Lightweight's ongoing adventures, Kevin finally learns why the Morlocks and the Eloi hate each other so much as the Eloi's master plan is finally revealed! Will Kevin finally find new allies or will he face an even bigger threat than ever before?
In the aftermath of his battle with Sigma, a dark dream strikes Kevin Mathis. And he knows it can have only one meaning: Hellfire is back. Lightweight sets out to stop his bully turned supervillain, but when one of his closest friends ends up in the crossfire, not everyone will survive the confrontation!
With Bethany's life in danger, Lightweight finds himself out of his element against the deadly killer known as Sigma. Plus new threats move into place that will challenge Kevin Mathis like never before! And the identity of the Gray Man revealed!
Lightweight is back and this time he has questions he wants answered! Alongside Howl, the city of Federation's top hero sets out to find out what Noctus and his Morlocks want with the hero. But his answers may come at the cost of his own life as he walks into a trap unlike anything he's faced in the past!
The American Arsenal leaps into action! The hero of the 1980s is a rampaging beast, fueled by aggression and on a never-ending war against crime and terrorism. But Arsenal is more than a war machine, but as he tries to unlock the mysteries of his own mind, can he hope to survive the super-powered villains aligned against him?
The fifth installment of America's top prose super-serial Lightweight has Kevin Mathis trapped between his new love Constanze and his best friend Millie!
All Ferris wanted was to get home to his daughter. But the tornado got in his way and the tornado did something, not just to him, but to everything. The world has became a very different place. Can Ferris survive it long enough to find his family?
In the fourth Lightweight story, Kevin meets the new foreign exchange student, but doesn't exactly get what he expects! At the same time, it is the return of the Titan robot that Lightweight faced in chapter one, only this time there are six of the robots that almost killed him just three months ago!
Plus more with the Gray Man, Andy makes a new friend and the debut of an all new hero!
Hellfire menaces the city and only Lightweight can stop him! But when Lightweight learns that the fiery villain is a figure from his own everyday life, can he bring himself to do what it takes to stop the monster?
The first story in the Short Shots series, short stories released under a Creative Commons license.
"The Editor" introduces the character of Marie Malis, a woman with unusual skills and an even more unusual life. Follow Marie as she completes one of her many edits, a contracted kill of a crime boss, and its aftermath.
As Kevin becomes more comfortable with his powers as Lightweight, the threat against him grows greater. A new enemy is assigned to eliminate him, a powerful assassin named Ronin. At the same time, his life is contemplated by his foil at school, a man that also knows his secret identity!
A hero is born!
Kevin Mathis discovers he has fantastic powers. But the sudden arrival of his control over gravity also brings with it a great threat as mysterious villains send a deadly adversary to attack him!
Freedom Patton wanders the country helping those in need and searching for his own answers along his way. He finds himself with a twentieth century calling in a twenty-first century world. With the help of a former lover he goes in search of a homeless teenager. But when dark forces start moving through the small towns of Iowa, he quickly ends up stuck in the middle.
While most New Pulp histories trace their history back to the 20s and 30s, Pulp Empire is proud to introduce eight new stories of pulp fiction action set in the present day.
From Terry Alexander's E-31 to Teel James Glenn's Deacon Furie to Caine Dorr's Commander Knight, Modern Pulp Heroes features over half a dozen great New Pulp heroes, many appearing here for the first time!