This is my latest Friday Fictioneers submission based on Janet Webb’sdeceptively enigmatic photograph. It’s 100 words exactly, though I originally wrote a longer version in which the character of the protagonist was fleshed out more. Thanks for reading.
Domingo realised he could climb walls when he was six.
“Like Spider-Man?” People would ask.
He’d say nothing; Stan Lee’s lawyers were notoriously twitchy.
He tried to make it as a superhero but the criminal fraternity were unfazed by otherwise normal man who could climb walls. After a failed attempt to thwart an art heist, he gave it all up. He had his first Sangria in 1998. By 2006, he was on his third liver.
He still has his power, but now he’s liable to wake up, hanging from a hacienda wall, with a headache and no idea how he got there.
The Inevitable Asterisk 
Dear Etienne,
Bummer of a problem there. You made me laugh. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
This is right up my alley. Great stuff 😀
Thank you. Pleased you enjoyed.
Etienne,
That’s adds a whole dimension (literally) to the problem of sleepwalking. They’re going to have to create a whole new crime: CWI (climbing while intoxicated) for him. 🙂
-David
I thought I’d already replied to this but guess I didn’t. CWI is a great idea. Thanks for reading.
Haha, spiderman with a hangover. 🙂
It might explain why Spider-Man 3 was so saggy.
Thanks for reading.
extremely clever. great stuff. 🙂
Thank you.
Very funny! I will be imagining him climbing a hacienda wall tonight as I have a glass of wine 🙂
Also, loved the line about Stann Lee’s lawyers 🙂
Thanks for reading.
Really funny. I can see where alcoholism could be a definite problem for a superhero.
All that lycra and the need to be on duty 24 hours must get them down. Glad you enjoyed it.
Funny stuff, darling. Watch out for Stan the Man’s legal team, that’s for sure.
Cheers. Thanks for reading.
Hanging hangovers are the worst…
I don’t know if it’s apocryphal but Keith Richard’s is rumoured to have woken up in a chandelier and yet still manage to keep an appointment. That’s a hanging hangover.
Perfect the art and sangria include in your well rounded story.
Thank you.
If you’re going to drink that, honey, be careful not to fall and break the chandelier. 🙂
Great advice. Thanks for reading.
A failed superhero with a useless power… very interesting.
Thanks for reading.
Third liver?Ha!ha!This was really funny and that ending had me in splits 😉
Thank you.
🙂
Great fin!
Great story. Poor guy. Things have gone downhill for him. He should see a careers consultant. Perhaps he could become an Escaping Prisoner.
Great idea. I would love to see a fly on the wall documentary about a careers counsellor in the Marvel universe.
Great story, made me laugh 🙂 like spiderman 😉 though not the kind of hangover i’d like to fight.
Thanks for reading.
Well done etienne I liked this one, good use of the prompt. Very entertaining.
Thank you.
Alcoholism and superpowers, underrated problem in the supernatural genre. 🙂 For some reason I saw homer simpson in a spider-suit.
Aye. I can only do my bit to raise awareness. Cheers for reading.
He needs to work on hanging onto his liver rather than walls. 🙂
Thanks for reading
“Art, someday you’ll hang (or is that hangover).” Sometimes I feel like climbing the wall too, but after a couple of glasses of wine I the feeling goes away.
🙂
Very entertaining – poor liver! Nan
Thank you.
All for the pun? Tssssssk! 😉
It’s worse than that. I probably spent longer thinking of the pun than I did writing the story. Thanks for reading.
Oh how sad! Very well done.
Thanks. Glad you detected the element of pathos.
Harsh yet hilarious. Loved the tone and flavour of the whole story as well as the Stan Lee bit 😀
Thank you
So sad that he became an alcoholic instead of super hero…
Thanks for reading and glad the pathos came through.
I love the little bit about twitchy lawyers and copyright.
Thank you. I was planning to do a full length story on the theme of superheroes facing litigation but this is as far as the momentum took me.