David L. Tamarin
- I Have One Superpower and it is That My Blood is Highly Flammable-
I’m just an average guy in most ways, except for my super-power.
I learned of my super-power when I was a kid in high school, drunk. We were standing in a circle. I carved my hand open to let my blood pour into the campfire. The flame jumped up real high and almost took my arm off. Annabelle’s hair and eyebrows got singed. She said, “Oh my God, your blood burns like gasoline.” They said I was like the monster in the Alien movies because it had corrosive deadly blood which it used as a weapon. That got me to thinking, I now had a secret weapon. But I decided not to use my blood as a weapon as that would require massive bleeding on my part and might kill me. But if I needed to light a fire in an emergency I could, and that was a plus.
I had a nightmare that I walked by a house on fire, and, forgetting that my blood is flammable, I cut myself open and tried to douse the flames with my blood, which only caused the fire to burn with more fury and power. Having a unique super-power like this causes psychological problems, I guess, like that nightmare. Also, I have a phobia that my semen is also flammable, but I have always been too scared to test that theory.
I have never used my super-power for noble purposes, the way a super-hero would, but once I helped a crack-head light up his rock when his lighter was low. He thanked me before taking my wallet and stomping on my head.
That was the last time I ever used my super-power.
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