Half a Moon: 14 Days of Celebrating Women

Title: Safe Spaces
Fandom: Astro City
Pairing/Characters: gen; Winged Victory
Rating: PG
Summary: Winged Victory does her best to inspire women, but sometimes it seems like the whole world is arrayed against her.
Disclaimer: Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson and Alex Ross own Astro City.
Author's Notes: As far as I know, there is no Astro City fandom.  Astro City is probably one of the best comics titles of the last twenty years, but it is little and has a sporadic release schedule, and so does not perhaps receive as much attention as it deserves.  Astro City is one of my safe spaces in literature and comics, and I hope I can share it both with people who already know the title and those for whom this is their first encounter.
Word Count: 1,400

For Astro City newbies: All you need to know in order to read this story is that Winged Victory is a superhero whose powers originate from her mission to inspire agency and self-determination in women.

A fire.  There had been a fire at one of the other Women’s Centers, the one in Bakerville.