Welcome to My Super First Day!

Remember that day, one year ago, when you woke up and discovered you had a superpower? We do, too! This is an exercise in massively collaborative storytelling. Contributors from the farthest-flung reaches of the interwebs have come together to tell us about that wonderful (or horrible!) day when their lives suddenly became supercharged.

My Super First Day is officially going for a second round, and our inbox is open for your submissions! If you want to make a contribution, just take a look at our FAQ to see our submission guidelines. The new deadline is Feb. 7, 2010, at 6pm EST.

And if you want to keep the party going, have we got an idea for you! Now that we've started building a universe, you're welcome to see what other people have done, and grow your own story along with theirs. Maybe in our archives you'll find an ally and build a coalition to fight for justice. Maybe you'll find the nemesis of your dreams. Even if you've hit the end of the road with your superpower, we'd love you to pop by and talk about your experience. Visit our community!

Don't worry if your stories and others have some factual discrepancies -- it's just for fun, and aren't we all used to infinite universes by now?

Enjoy your visit here at My Super First Day, and hope to hear from you soon!

What do I do with all these chickens?

By Mike Cox

I'm keeping the chickens I make
Not for them, but for my own sake 

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Broken Yolk

By Mike Cox

My name is Deci-eggs-imate,
One that people are starting to hate.
On a touch one in ten,
Are turned into hens,
A sad and statistical fate.

Biscuit Levitation

OK, this wasn't created specifically for My Super First Day, but it's too brilliant to not post:

Thanks to @MikeyJ for the link!

Sparky

By Hillary Monahan

Sometimes people say something smells like shit and what they really mean is "it's musty" or "there's a mildewy funk here". When I say Mary Carlson's basement smelled like shit, I mean it. She had about six of those small yappy dogs, Shit Zoos or whatever, and apparently no one had bothered to teach 'em that you're supposed to drop your bricks outside in the grass. There were about eight zillion tiny brown landmines I had to work around to get to her electrical wiring, and I wondered how in the hell she could live like that. It was disgusting.

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A Pain in the Choas

By Marcus Riedner

Most people just do not understand what it is like to have someone else give you your super power. I had no choice in the matter, I made a simple slip of the tongue, a small typo on my blog and before I knew it I had the full power of the Choas.

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Broken Genie

By Haley Moore

I still owe the Cafe an apology - one I plan to deliver, if they ever let me in there again. In my defense, I really did think it was something in the coffee at first; some cocktail of LSD and speed with maybe a dash of roofie to make me zone out. But I didn't touch the coffee, of course, between that first sip and the nightmare start, running my pen in a little white trench in a book with a blood-red cover.

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Distracted

By Jay Bushman

I didn’t notice anything on the first day. I was always good at blocking out distractions and focusing on the task at hand. And putting your own needs to the side for the sake of the work is a necessary corporate survival skill.

my.. insectile.. tongue...

By netwurker

layar 1: twitch-city. yawning.left eyelid's all gummed up. blah.

[layar 2: [lock-N-load]turn[key]ing ova + scratching. scratch...i...n.....g......wot?]

Anniversary

By Ancalime

So many of us changed last year, but why are we all so different? Lacking any other common thread, so far the evidence seems to point to a strong minority of the affected being changed in a way that wasn't entirely alien to them, but rather something to which they'd previously already had an affinity.

Well, then I start to ask myself...have we experienced a true singularity, and are now dealing with an entirely new playbook when it comes to the laws of physics?

...Or do we just have more to discover?

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Woe is Cuspid

By Hollow Bastion

Argh! Is there anybody more frustrated than me at the moment?! I think not. I-THINK-NOT, Sir!