The old sign was freshly painted
"Become a real superhero or - $5"
And it seemed like an odd typo
To have that 'or' hanging off the end
But hey
Nobody is perfect
So I went into the single wide that the sign was hanging on
I paid my five bucks
An old man in a lead suit gave me a box and left the room
I opened it
I dropped dead
The old man tottered back
Dragged a piece of drywall off an opening in the floor
And rolled me into it
Where I fell into bottomless darkness
Box picked up
Plywood in place
Old man waiting
The experiment set for the next person
Upon the wall next to the calendar
Was a sign with a small whiteboard square
It currently read
"It has been 9768 days
Since the last superhero"
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