[ WP ] Write a story about a person 's life , part as a child , dreaming big , and part as an adult , living out those dreams .

Countless photographs hung from small magnets on the refrigerator, along with childhood pictures scrawled in crayon and pencil, and Stephanie Weber glanced at them while she struggled to fit into her new clothes. She smiled as she looked at a photo taken a decade and a half ago, showing an energetic young girl at a science fair, grinning from ear to ear as she stood next to a baking soda volcano while it erupted. Next to that photo was another showing the girl at a fairground, after an artist had painted cartoony spider pincers on her face; this was pinned to the fridge with letter-shaped magnets that spelled, `` STEPH''. 
 
 Further down the fridge, there was a sketch of the girl, now teenaged, lying in a bed of spiderwebs with a game controller in her hands. Next to that was a rejection letter from a local police academy; it was crumpled slightly, and there were small drops near the middle, left by tears that had dried years ago. Below the rejection was an encouraging letter signed by five friends -- Tara, Will, Blaine, Jake, and Todd. Next to that, a photograph of a tombstone bearing the name `` Todd Dancy,'' and an article clipped from a newspaper, describing an armed robbery gone wrong. `` Prove him right!'' was scrawled over the article, in red marker. 
 
 Steph carefully fastened a set of ceramic plates over her legs; they had been specially molded by a friend of a friend, to provide maximum protection without limiting movement. She slid bulletproof sheets over her midsection, and wrapped a mask around her face, checking a mirror to make sure she was n't recognizable. Satisfied, she turned to leave the room, and then stopped to glance at one last picture on the fridge. It was one of her kindergarten-era drawings: a crude representation of herself in a superhero costume, stopping an archetypical villain wearing a ski mask. Two of her legs kept him pinned down, while her other six legs kept her suspended from a ceiling. 
 
 She smiled as she tightened her costume and skittered out of her home.
