For Hire: Audition — Kevin Patterson

It's a world like our own, but the emergence of superhumans has created shifts in culture that play out in changes both subtle and monumental. Those who share their abilities with the world do so for a price: either as superheroes, public-facing protectors; or as operators, who work from the shadows. They are...For Hire.Vanessa and B-Girl are two superhumans whose lives didn't go quite as planned. While Vanessa can process numbers as fast as a calculator, she'd trade all of her powers for a dream career that already left her behind. Now she's stuck making coffee for a boss who's desperate to underpay her. B-Girl is a veteran superhero with a career that never got off the ground, a broken marriage, and a pile of debts to pay. When she discovers that Vanessa's talents aren't limited to making her daily latte, she enlists the barista in a plan that could make them both rich. They'll just need to bend the rules a little...