Let's see, five years have passed since Clark was close enough to Lois to have a personal conversation. How long did it take her to start looking? And how did she know to go to Prague? (I looked it up!) Is finding him a wild, million-to-one chance or the culmination of a plan? You could go either way, given her startled question at seeing him yet releasing her pent-up anger rapidly and sharply. And what at the sophisticated European folks doing while this madwoman slaps and snarls at this man who's behaving as if he deserves what's happening to him? Is someone going to call a cop to have one or both of them arrested? Or is everyone shrugging his or her shoulders and muttering "Crazy Americans" in a polyglot of tongues?

Is Superman still active? You very carefully don't say either way, only that Superman and Clark left Metropolis around the same time.

You hint at a child, but does that mean that Lois lives in the Czech Republic, or lives close enough to take day trips there? I know there's a great rail system in Europe. Is she still working in the media? Is the Superman Foundation giving her any support at all? For all the questions I have about this mini-vignette, it hits like a tank on a rampage. Great job.

Now, young lady, come back here and finish this beautiful heart-rending beast!



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- Stephen King, from On Writing