Anti hero

FIRST PLACE £100

All right, I’ll admit it. This isn’t the life I’d planned for myself. I’d always thought my future would involve a lot more love and maybe the odd ticker tape parade. I have to say though, that if I look back on events now, it almost seems as if everything was destined to turn out this way, whatever I did.

My childhood was pretty standard, but it was when adolescence kicked in that things got complicated. Instead of worrying about spots, unexpected hair and a breaking voice, I found I’d got superpowers. Well, one superpower. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I had it made, aren’t you? Trust me, there were times when I would have traded my new found ability at the drop of a hat for something that could have been treated with antiseptic gel, a razor and a vow of silence until I was twenty. But no. I had to