The fire of a thousand suns washes over me.  My skin is withering, charring like I’ve just been hit by Superman’s heat vision.  Am I being burned by a flamethrower?  No, my accounting professor has snuck up on me and let loose with a blast of nuclear halitosis.  Hot, heavy smog invades my consciousness; I feel like I’m drowning in old socks and used cat litter…I fumble in my pockets and open my eReader to Echo.  Magic flash.  Batman swings by on his grapnel.  A quick flash of his arm, and two darts fly through the air.  One sticks me in the neck—a custom-engineered, fast-acting dose of Kryptonian stem cells.  The other hits the professor and expands into a polypropylene bag that encloses him in his own stench.  As my ravaged flesh heals, my professor claws at his neck, questioning his life choices.

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