A New American Superhero
By Paul Gray
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A new American Super Hero emerges as the result of mutations brought on by natural selection. His doctor and best friend is intent on discovering the extent of these changes but in the process gets more than she bargained for.
Paul Gray
My name is Paul Gray. I'm an amateur author, poet and musician. I live in South Carolina in a house I built myself (with my own hands). Well... my girlfriend at the time helped me a lot.For almost twenty years I supplemented my writing income with a tedious little job about four months each year. That job required me to be a nuclear health physics technician and it is a job at which I was not an amateur. I traveled the country assisting in the refueling of nuclear power plants and wait... before you ask, no I don't glow in the dark. :P Today, I'm an over the road truck driver. I'm amazed at how driving stimulates my creative juices.I've always aspired to be a writer. I started writing fictional stories (not lies) when I was 11 years old. Writing is an outlet for me. I have an opinion on most subjects and I enjoy voicing those opinions. Writing allows me to be more articulate where my opinions are concerned. Fiction writing allows me to export those opinions as a merge of reality and fantasy. Some of the fictional situations that I write about contain experiences that I have dealt with first hand. Don't panic! An equal number of things I write are simply conjugations of creative cognition.
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A New American Superhero - Paul Gray
A New American Superhero
Written by: Paul Gray
Published by Paul Gray at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Paul Gray
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This is a total work of fiction. All characters mentioned in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblance to an actual person or persons is strictly coincidental. None of the events described in this book ever took place. (to the best of my knowledge)
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CHAPTER ONE
[The Beginning]
In the beginning, twenty-six year old Daniel Gunnelson woke on a Monday morning. It was the morning of his twenty-sixth birthday and he considered it a very good omen that he awoke to the sound of birds singing just outside his window. Adding to the delight of the morning's experience, he smelled the delicious aroma of coffee coming from the direction of his newly remodeled kitchen. Daniel lived alone. The coffee pot, which allowed him to prepare the coffee the night before by the use of a timer, was in fact a birthday gift given to him, one day early, by his friend and personal physician, Dr. Julia Evans. Yesterday, the two friends had met for an informal birthday celebration in Daniel's honor, since both of them had to work on the day of the actual event. Although Daniel was slightly apprehensive about his best friend now filling the role as his personal physician, he was warming to the idea and took yesterday as an opportunity to discuss symptoms he had recently experienced. She suggested he stop by her office for a routine checkup, just to be safe.
Daniel and Julia had grown up together in the same small town in rural Virginia. They had attended the same schools, watched the same television shows and listened to the same music. They even shared the same scenery from their respective windows from their respective homes. They were in fact; next-door neighbors living in virtually identical houses side by side in a cookie cutter neighborhood.
Julia's father worked as the town's butcher and supplied local residents with various cuts of meat as desired by middle class America. Julia helped her father in the butcher shop after school and on weekends and this, by some left handed twist of fate, influenced her decision to become a doctor when she grew up.
Daniel's father however, owned and operated the town's one and only hardware store, selling nuts and bolts, hoes and shovels and assortments of other menial and mechanical wares to the residents of their small town. Like Julia, Daniel helped his father after school and on weekends and as a direct result of the hands on experience and more than a few nudges from his father, Daniel decided that he wanted to become an engineer when he grew up.
Both Daniel and Julia grew up without the presence of a mother.
The two youngsters spent almost every waking moment together. They walked to school together, they shared the same classes and after school they walked into town together. Coincidentally, the hardware store was right next door to the