Wow! Thanks for all the great feedback.
This story just sort of wrote itself. It started, actually, as a thought from a line in Ten Years in the Making where Clark has no powers for the moment and when he wakes up, the world is quiet.
It got me thinking about what it would be like for him on an ordinary day - how disheartening it would be to wake up to hear people in need screaming for your help. This led to how much even worse this would have been early on after he became Superman and then the rest of the story just sort of took shape around it.
I'm so glad to see that others liked it!
