The Superhero

There was a superhero who had “the power of walking away.” That is, if he turned his back on someone — they simply disappeared.

When he left his wife, she vanished. When he walked out of the house, the house was gone. When he stepped through the gate, the whole yard disappeared.

When he quit his last job — despite all the begging and pleading — an entire office building disappeared.

He had plenty of women — not because they loved him, or had fallen in love with him — but because they were terrified that one day, they might simply cease to exist.