Well now I want to read the other one. This is the first superhero story that I have read here. Nice work, good pacing, and an about perfect ending. Truly, who is useless?
Thanks, guys! I got a lot of love for poor Armordillo last time, and yesterday’s newspaper had a word puzzle with armadillo as the daily word, so… kismet!
Excellent story! Ficly seems to lend itself well to superhero stories. I think it’s because we can recognize the tropes of the medium so quickly, which allows the author to get right to the plot without a lot of exposition.
Indeed, one of the “rules” I’ve seen for microfic and flash fic is to be as allusive as possible. It’s not about using cliches but about using shortcuts to things most people know about. Superheroes, mythology, supernatural stuff, that sort of thing can work really well because we have foundations already in place, like you said.
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