The Great Good Thing (2016)
“In these dreams, I was a hero who rescued girls from danger. I was a cowboy about to step into a gunfight to save a widow’s farm, or a soldier battling Nazis to reach the French mademoiselle in her cottage behind enemy lines. Sometimes I was like one of the superheroes from the comic books I loved. Elementary School Kid was just my secret identity. No one knew that I could become invisible, or shrink to the size of an atom, or breathe under water, or run at the speed of light. Or, best of all, ...that I could fly: fly anywhere and drop from the sky like heaven’s vengeance—through the window, shattering glass—into the dark city alley where the henchmen lurked or anywhere else where girls were in danger and could be rescued in the nick of time.
There were other dreams, too, more personal, more specific dreams that weren’t inspired by comic books or television or movies but that grew organically out of my own childhood hurts and yearnings. I wanted to be a scientist, an inventor like my hero Thomas Edison.MoreLess
There were other dreams, too, more personal, more specific dreams that weren’t inspired by comic books or television or movies but that grew organically out of my own childhood hurts and yearnings. I wanted to be a scientist, an inventor like my hero Thomas Edison.MoreLess
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