Marvel's SPIDER-MAN by David Liss

Author:David Liss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

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ONCE, when Bingham looked up, he saw a figure swinging from rooftop to rooftop. It had to be the person they called Spider-Man. It was dark, and Bingham couldn’t see his face, but he knew Spider-Man was looking at him and was scared of him.

The idea came into his head all at once—that they had switched places somehow. Bingham was supposed to be the one swinging through the night, and that guy in the Spider-Man suit was supposed to be stuck on the cold ground. He didn’t know how he knew it, but he didn’t worry about it, because true things didn’t need to be explained.

That winter was very cold. Maybe it wasn’t as cold as the winters got in Binghamton, but back home he’d been able to spend more time indoors. He’d never had to sleep outside during the winter before. That made it seem colder. Knowing that Spider-Man was out there with his stolen life made things colder, too.

He had to ask people for money and food. Sometimes he got it. He found a cat and put it on a leash, and that helped him get more money and food. People liked the cat, but the cat ran away, so that only got him through a couple of weeks.

One day, there was a pretty lady standing in front of him.

“Can you give me any money or food?” he asked. “I’m hungry, and I don’t have any money.”

“I can take you to a place that’s warm,” she said, smiling. “There will be plenty to eat, and we can help you—if you are willing to help us.”

“Help you do what?”

“We want to give you some medicine and see if it makes you better or worse.”

Bingham thought about that. He didn’t think he could get any worse, and the idea of being warm, of having plenty to eat, sounded much better.

“Okay,” he said. “I’d do that.” He went with the pretty lady, and he started taking the medicine. It made him worse at first, and then a whole lot better.

That’s when he met the man who changed his life.

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