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When he falls asleep on the bus, he becomes mixed up in a battle between some villains and The League.

When his father does leave, Thom decides to run away from home. Thom quickly straightens things up, but doesn't have enough time to erase his history on the computer. While masturbating to a picture of local superhero Uberman, Hal comes home to get ready for his real estate class. Thom explains that he is afraid to come out not only because of his father, but due to living in a homophobic town. When he gets home, he takes his father's laptop and decides to look at porn. While recuperating at the hospital, he is forced to give up his driver's license and must resort to using the bus to get around.ĭuring the summer, Thom's coach kicks him off the team due to his medical issues, though Thom gets the coach to confess that it is actually because of the comment made during the game. Afterwards, Thom has a seizure, which is most likely related to stress created by absorbing Goran's injuries, and his fears about his father discovering his sexual orientation. Apparently no one notices what he has done for Goran, and when the game resumes, another player calls Thom a faggot in front of everyone. He has healed others before, but does not fully understand his ability. Strangely, Thom heals Goran's injury by touching his leg over the compound fracture. Thom is thrown off his game and Goran ends up breaking one of his legs. It turns out that actually Goran is the person who started the reading program a few years before.ĭuring a basketball game, Thom recognizes one of the players from the opposing team as Goran. Thom mistakes Goran for a student because of his strong accent, accidentally offending him. After an incident during a reading session, he is moved to another class where he meets a young man named Goran.

He becomes a tutor for children with reading and language disorders at the community center, and often reads to his students. Thom is filled with teen-aged angst because he is gay and knows that his father greatly disapproves of homosexuality.

His mother abandoned the family several years ago, and his father Hal, a publicly disgraced ex-superhero, is now a lowly factory worker. Thom Creed is a 16-year-old high school basketball star, who has a tendency to get into trouble. The fantasy novel is about a teenage superhero, Thom Creed, who must deal with his ex-superhero father's disgrace, his own sexuality, and a murderer stalking the world's heroes. Hero is a 2007 Lambda-winning novel, and the only novel by openly gay film producer and novelist Perry Moore.