It was crush hour
in Los Angeles—trucks to the right of me, cars to the left. Five lanes of traffic
had crawled to a stop and I was due at a meeting in twenty minutes. I thumbed the
office number.
My secretary
answered. “Where are you?” she demanded. “The Avenger's here.”
“Stuck on the 2-oh-5.”
“Shall I call Superman?”
she whispered.
“What could he
do?”
“Give you a
literal lift.”
I couldn’t see
any other way out of this mess. “Sure,” I said, smiling at myself in the
rearview mirror. “I’ll promise him a role in my next blockbuster.”
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