Wonder Guy by Naomi Stone

Author:Naomi Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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ISBN: 9781616504793
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2013-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

When Gloria told him she was too tired to go out, Pete said he understood perfectly. “You should get your rest,” he told her. “I’m glad you’re doing better now than when you called before.”

“I’ll be even better after a good night’s sleep.” She said her goodbyes. If she was doing better, it was no thanks to him, but she could hardly blame the man for wanting to keep his job.

She tucked her cell phone back in her bag then joined Aggie at the kitchen worktable.

“It’s fine with Pete,” Gloria reported, resuming her chair. The Blue Morpho cell shell sat completed. She started collecting the containers of tiny crystals, returning them to their proper places on the shelves. “He even seemed relieved.” More relieved than sympathetic to her loss, but maybe she wasn’t being fair. “He doesn’t usually like going out on week nights when he has to be up early for work and we already went out to dinner with his parents the other night.”

“Well, that’s for the best then.” Aggie backed from the table. “Why don’t I fix us something to eat?”

“I’m not very hungry.” Gloria slumped back in her chair.

“Some soup will do you good.” Aggie wheeled toward the fridge. “I’ll heat up some of that chicken, wild rice and veggie soup I made Sunday. I bet if you try a taste, you’ll want some more.”

“Fine.” Gloria found the remote. “Mind if I check out the news?” They’d been tuned to some ancient sitcom with the sound turned low while they chatted over their projects. She hadn’t even registered which show.

“Go ahead.” Aggie moved between fridge and stovetop. The stove had been customized to be accessible for her. She did a lot of cooking. Gloria loved her chicken wild rice soup. Aggie actually used wild rice, unlike some restaurants she’d visited where they used a mix including a few grains of the wild, but mainly consisting of white rice. She flicked to a news report and turned up the sound.

Dinosaurs? What the heck?

“There, you see it, Ken,” the newswoman said. “Footage captured on a cell phone this afternoon at Lake Calhoun, where hundreds of people reported seeing real dinosaurs battling in the waters of the lake.”

“But by the time our cameras arrived on the scene, any dinosaurs had disappeared. Isn’t that right, Linda?”

“That’s right, Ken. People at the scene say the local hero known as Wonder Guy carried a T-rex above the clouds, as seen in this clip, and a minute or two later the other dinosaur–”

“The Apatosaurus I believe, Linda.”

“That’s right, Ken. The Apatosaurus vanished from the lake a couple minutes after Wonder Guy carried the T-rex away.”

Gloria watched the footage, fascinated. Wonder Guy slung the tail of the gargantuan beast over his shoulder, hefting it like a bag of potatoes, dragging it from the lake, up to the heavens. Wow. Even as strong as he was, it seemed incredibly brave to tangle with a vicious monster many times his own size. Wet from his dip in the lake, his costume did even more to show off the lean musculature of his powerful form.

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