[ Wp ] Nerds and artists take over the world after everyone is given superpowers based on imagination .

Tuesday the 30th of September was in many ways ordinary. Norman Smith was woken, as ever, by the small digital alarm clock radio that he had owned since his first day of paid employment, as an actuarial analyst for a small firm in Dudley. 
 
 
 Had he been a little less dazed as he awoke he might have considered somewhat strange the purple incandescence seeping around the edges of his curtains; noted perhaps the peculiar shadows cast by a flying delorean, pegasus, and giant winged rat; heard with alarm John Humphreys youthful voice decrying the sudden reappearance of a zombified Thatcher shuffling at the gates of downing Street. Instead he simply rolled across in his semi conscious state and slapped the radio off, lumbered out of bed and into the boxy bathroom and into the shower. 
 
 
 It took more than a few moments under the scalding hot liquid for Norman to realise that insofar as he could tell he was been doused in beer, as the afterimage of the curtain's purple corona, the flickering impossibility of shadows and John Humphreys echo tumbled through his brain. 
 
 
 No, he thought that's not right. And the running water washed away what he supposed to be a very unsettling dream.
