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Awwww. Like Mommy like daughter.

When I started writing again, after taking too long of a hiatus when my children were born, my children saw me and also got the writing bug. Mostly they have been picture books with rudimentary stories or captions. The closest to fanfic my kids have done is the above story my son told to me about Superman vs. The Egg (more oral story than anything else).

My daughter did one about our cat, who died of kidney failure shortly thereafter. After that, she returned to just coloring and has given up the writing bug.

In the past year, my son has gotten really interested in writing books. He illustrates and has me caption about one story every week or two. I have at least three of them sitting on my desk to save (I've been scanning them into the computer and sending them to the family.). Mostly they are monster stories told from the monster's POV. The humans ALWAYS (with one exception) get eaten. Most recently, the stories have started including a moral. ("Don't leave a mess after you eat" for example.) The one he brought me last night was about a monster created by a mad scientist, who then gets eaten by the monster he made. Sadly, the monster also ended up dying and becoming a ghost. Since I haven't yet captioned this one, I'm not sure exactly what caused the monster to die, but if I had to guess I'd say indigestion. He even draws a bar code on the last page of the book.

Mrs. M, I'm envious of your computer skills you're able to teach your children. I don't think I even have those basic skills. This will put them way ahead of their peers in that respect.

There are at least two versions of Clark being a Batman style character under a red sun. One where he and Jimmy Olsen are in the bottled city of Kandor and one where he and Lois are on a version of Krypton. In both cases he used Nightwing and Flamebird as identities. The story about that was what gave Dick Grayson the idea to use Nightwing.

Clark and Lois as Nightwing and Flamebird

You know, this could be an excellent plotbunny!

--Who is the monster? (I was just thinking of AntiKryptonite's excellent fic, Man Or Monster .) The answer is very debatable.

--- Who was the exception that didn't get eaten? And why?

---Is the getting eaten only physical, or could it be mental or spiritual too?

Virginia, your kid is taking after you in making statements that really make me think about background and backstory!

With the last one with the mad scientist, I'll have to agree. With the other ones, the victims usually were hapless people surfing, lying on the beach, or in their boat prior to becoming the monster's meal. (Hmmmm. Just realized most of his monsters come from the sea.)

I don't have that story right in front of me but if I can recall correctly it was a Godzilla type monster who attacked NYC and bit off the top of the Empire State Building, but then decided to befriend 3 boys on the street who were nice to him (because they liked monsters) and they went off together to have ice cream and lived happily ever after.

He's 6, so everything is literal. Very bloody, very gutsy, with the victims' bones/skeletons (and sometimes pants) being spit out at the end.

Thanks. He is a bit of a dark character. You should see him in his SM costume*, though, he can light up the room with his 1000 watt smile.


*BTW: SM Costume not supplied by me. He received it from a classmate on his last birthday. Henry Cavill will have stiff competition in 20 years.