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YeahWrite Weekly Challenge #486, nonfiction Mandatory prompts: superpower fire generation, food mustard Day Job Lightning punctuated the dark rain clouds as they sped across the sky in a menacing veil, threatening to flood the city park with wet warm drops.   The rapid boom of thunder announced the timing to be imminent.   To most of the park’s occupants this seemed like a simple summer storm, but to the woman in the window of “Denise’s Ketchup Dogs” food truck, it had a more ominous purpose.   One lock of her waist-length curly red hair slipped over her shoulder and over her eye as she gripped the counter edge and leaned forward, tilting her chin skyward.   She tapped her long nails, filed to points and painted with swirling images of flames, and arched a magenta eyebrow with consternation.   “Excuse me?   Excuse me, little lady, might I have a Denise’s special with extra ketchup?” The elderly gentleman with tufts of gray hair escaping the sides of his newsboy cap an