Divide and Shatter
“So, what? We’re each other’s kryptonite?”
“Seems so, yes.”
The superhero looked at his girlfriend. They had been together all their lives. Never separated, never more than a hundred meters or so apart. In retrospect, they should have figured it out sooner.
It was only when they had their first fight that their powers manifested. The simple reason was that they were apart for a day.
He was out in the woods with his dirt bike, she was at that county festival with her blown glass art. What was it, three or four kilometres of distance between them?
He just couldn’t believe it.
He loved her like he loved a part of himself. And now, they had realised that the obstacle to their own potential was each other.
What kind of universe hates true love so much that needs to cu
