Less Than Hero by S.G. Browne

Author:S.G. Browne
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2015-03-16T17:00:00+00:00

From the New York Daily News, page 2:

JUST SUPER! UNIQUE COLLECTION OF HEROES TAKES MANHATTAN

Vomiting and seizures and rashes, oh my!

What sounds like a musical number for an Off-Broadway mash-up of The Wizard of Oz and Rent is, instead, the aftermath of a series of bizarre incidents involving a group of individuals who have interfered to stop crimes against New York’s elderly and homeless.

Ramona (no last name given), a homeless woman who lives at the Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter, claims to have witnessed them in action.

“There were three of them . . . maybe four.” Ramona said. “I saw them one night in Central Park. They helped a friend of mine. Made one of the men attacking her throw up and the other one fall asleep, just like a baby. Like they sung him some kind of a lullaby.”

Over the past several weeks, there have been increasing reports of anonymous strangers who have come to the rescue of people in distress—which isn’t all that unusual in New York. In recent years, Manhattan has been home to superheroes such as Squeegeeman, who wields his squeegee of justice to fight crime, and Dark Guardian, who employs his martial art skills against drug dealers in Washington Square Park.

So while New York has a history of ordinary people taking extraordinary measures to try to make a difference and help clean up their neighborhoods, these new crime fighters appear to have somewhat unique methods of dispensing justice by allegedly causing their victims to vomit uncontrollably or break out in full-body rashes.

The police have so far refused to comment other than to say that crime fighting should be left to the proper authorities, but there have even been reports of would-be criminals allegedly suffering bouts of narcolepsy, going into epileptic seizures, and experiencing extreme and sudden weight gain.

“One of the men who attacked me inflated like a balloon,” Carolyn Vecchio said. Vecchio, a 72-year-old woman, was mugged in Columbus Park. “I thought he was going to pop.”

As is often the case in eyewitness accounts, it’s not always easy to separate fact from fiction. However, according to medical reports, the rashes and seizures and vomiting are apparently real. And while the effects suffered by the criminals appear to be temporary, how these vigilantes are able to cause others to experience such reactions is unknown.

However, some people, like Kyle DeWolfe, one of the homeless helped by the group of heroes, have their own theories.

“I bet they’re some kind of army experiment,” DeWolfe said. “Soldiers in training for some new kind of covert warfare.”

Could they be part of some kind of government experiment? It’s a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream, and not without precedent.

In addition to these crime-fighting vigilantes, there are continuing reports of people throughout the city suffering from memory loss and hallucinations, the latter of which call to mind Project MKUltra—a Cold War CIA project that involved dosing unsuspecting citizens in several U.S. cities with LSD, mescaline, and other hallucinogens in an effort to develop mind control.

“I’m telling you,” DeWolfe said.

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