There’s a micro-fiction competition going on at hilobrow.com. The brief is to create a troubled or troubling superhero in 250 words or less. I should be working on a tech book (the third edition of my PHP Objects book), and submitting a chapter to my writing group, but I couldn’t resist having a go. Have you noticed that the thing you shouldn’t be doing is always the most attractive.

Even if you’re not interested in submitting it’s worth visiting to read the stories, which are available as comments to the competition blog post. The standard is pretty high, I think.

I’ll repost my little effort here next week, alongside links to the winner/runners up.

If you submit as a result of this post, I’d love a link to it. Hurry up, though.