Yesterday's Heroes (Consortium of Chaos Book 1) by Elizabeth Gannon

Author:Elizabeth Gannon [Gannon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Star Turtle Publishing
Published: 2012-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

A boy put his hand into a pitcher full of nuts. He grabbed as many as he could hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his nuts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly cried out in disappointment. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand." Moral of the story? Do not attempt too much at once.

Poacher sat in his Jeep listening to the news and staring at the road sign in front of his parking spot. He had parked in front of the bank, in one of those spaces marked with the chick in the blue dress, which seemed to be all over the city for some reason. Harlot always insisted that it was supposed to represent a guy in a cape, and that it meant that only heroes could park there, but Poacher didn’t see it. It just looked like some fat chick in a blue dress to him, and he had no idea what that had to do with heroes. It was almost identical to the chick on the ladies’ room sign, for Christ’s sake! But, whatever. If the Freedom Squad wanted to represent themselves with some faceless broad in an ugly dress, Poacher didn’t give a shit. Hell, they could have put a logo of a Bengal tiger fucking a burning human skull covered in jewels on the sign, and it STILL wouldn’t have stopped him from parking there. Why should THEY get all the good spots in the city? And why didn’t villains get reserved spaces too? Where the fuck were THEY supposed to park? Typical egotistical Cape bullshit.

The newscaster continued to chatter on and on about boring nonsense. Poacher didn’t normally make it a habit of listening to the news. What did HE care what was happening someplace he wasn’t? Riots in Western Europe, huh? Well, good fucking thing he didn’t have to deal with that then. Fires sweeping the West? Thanks god he lived in the EAST and didn’t need to worry. News was just a way to deliver useless information to the people who DIDN’T need it. The people who NEEDED the information, the people it actually affected, already knew about it because it was currently happening to THEM. You think the people in the riot area don’t KNOW that there’s a fucking riot going on around them? Think they need the fucking newscaster to TELL them to watch for riots? HELL no.

He took another bite of the beef jerky he kept in his glove box. People spent WAAAY too much time worrying about things that were none of their concern. The announcer came back on and Poacher listened intently. He needed to know the time. He didn’t wear a watch and Fabricator had said that they all needed to rob their bank at noon exactly.

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