From the shabby nickel-gray suit to an average physique to the fact that he sleeps on a park bench, nothing about Bartholomew Bleak would suggest he is a superhero. Only...he is. And he is looked down upon by his superpowered peers. But when an alien menace invades his hometown of Capstone?a threat which not even the National League of Heroes can defend against?Mr. Bleak may just prove that sometimes the greatest heroes are cut from the unlikeliest cloth. "The Stone the Builders Refused" by Matthew Brady is a Mannison Minibook published by Mannison Press, LLC.

Matthew Brady is a young writer currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Belmont University, where he studied writing and literature before earning his bachelor's degree. He is the author of four novelettes and one novella through Mannison Press, with his shorter works appearing in various anthologies. His short story, "Midnight Oil," was published in the second volume of Nosetouch Press's "The Asterisk Anthology" (2018), where it won first prize in the Southern Gothic genre.