My Neighbor Is a Superhero (Probably) — Chapter 1

Dave had a system for this sort of thing, and the system was: notice nothing, ask no questions, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, start a spreadsheet.

He started the spreadsheet on a Tuesday.

Column one: dates his downstairs neighbor had canceled dinner plans. Column two: dates of “breaking local news” involving a masked figure downtown. Column three, added with some reluctance at eleven p.m., because he was not a person who jumped to conclusions: the correlation.

The correlation was extremely strong.

“You look like a man having a realization,” said his roommate, not looking up from the couch.

“I am having several,” Dave said. “None of them are good. All of them involve Kevin from 4B.”