Synopsis

The stories protagonist is George Jones, a teenager living in contemporary Hull who is obsessed with superheroes and the superhero genre. One day he decided he will live out his dream and become a superhero himself and fight crime in the city. He decides to make a costume and he goes out walking through alleyways looking for a crime to prevent but it is harder to find crime than he thinks. Suddenly he stumbles upon a girl being mugged down an alley by a criminal and he steps up to stop it. He starts a fight with the mugger but accidentally hits the girl instead and knocks her out. The mugger sees what he has done and runs away. George stands in the alley looking at her and decides to run away too. The resolution is that he still believes that he is keeping the city safe when the irony is he has done more harm than good.