Neil Esgra

Cebu City

kid slapper

– “faster than a rolling O, more powerful than a silent E, able to leap a capital T” – would fly to the scene of a problem and fix it by plucking letters from his sweatshirt, changing bad words into good words. He would change “gun” to “bun”, or “tickle” to “pickle” (revealing, presumably, that “tickle” is a bad word). If he had enough letters, no doubt he could change “superhero” into “what a ridiculous superpower.”