Whoa. That's heavy. And that's definitely sadder than anything I've written lately. I can hardly imagine Superman hearing all those people call for help and be completely unable to do anything about it, be totally helpless himself. He's not used to being badly sunburned, so that pain will probably stay with his mind for a long time. And the cruelty of Lois receiving a shredded super-suit with a gloating note from Luthor is - it's just terrible. It's almost worse than her inability to greet her husband as her husband when she finally finds him.

You captured a lot of angst here. This is an excellent vignette, and I see a great future for you in FOLCdom. You write even better than you FDK, and you FDK pretty doggone well. I think we should see more efforts from your word processor.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing