Part 1:
Heroes with secret origins?
People with dazzling abilities?
Stunning events that saved billions?
Such was life with the QCP.
Back home, back in Town Worth, day-to-day events did not offer such intensity.
The grip of the fantastic held less sway.
Comic book dramatics came in softer colors.
The sun rose and set without champions dotting the sky.
People with dazzling abilities?
Stunning events that saved billions?
Such was life with the QCP.
Back home, back in Town Worth, day-to-day events did not offer such intensity.
The grip of the fantastic held less sway.
Comic book dramatics came in softer colors.
The sun rose and set without champions dotting the sky.
And yet … everyone has an ‘origin’ story.
Even if that tale lacks bombast or splendor.
Every person, important or unheralded, has a history.
Even Rick and Dale and me.
After our time with the QCP?
Recording heroic events and biographies.
I’ve realized that this narrative is incomplete without our stories.
We also have origins, such as they are.
Origins both mysterious and mundane.
And born, perhaps, in a carpet store.
Even if that tale lacks bombast or splendor.
Every person, important or unheralded, has a history.
Even Rick and Dale and me.
After our time with the QCP?
Recording heroic events and biographies.
I’ve realized that this narrative is incomplete without our stories.
We also have origins, such as they are.
Origins both mysterious and mundane.
And born, perhaps, in a carpet store.
Grandpa Hyung.
Joseph Hyung.
Who came to the United States, with his parents and brother, at age five.
Joseph Hyung is his Anglicized name; he was born Hyung Soon-bu.
He and his brother started Hyung’s Carpets 56 years ago.
(Back then it was called Hyung's Carpets, Rugs and Fine Weavings.)
Grandpa married Esther Park (also Korean) and had three kids: John (my dad), Sam (our uncle), and Robina (Aunt Beanie.)
Dad married Samantha Clay (elementary school nurse and Non-Korean-American).
They had Rick.
And later, after many years of deciding if it was worth risking reproduction again?
Then I came along.
Uncle Solomon married Aunt Julie and they have one daughter, our cousin Amy.
Aunt Beanie is widowed and has two kids, Isaac and Bethany, who both live out of state.
These origin stories are more interesting when they’re about the strange and the super!
Joseph Hyung.
Who came to the United States, with his parents and brother, at age five.
Joseph Hyung is his Anglicized name; he was born Hyung Soon-bu.
He and his brother started Hyung’s Carpets 56 years ago.
(Back then it was called Hyung's Carpets, Rugs and Fine Weavings.)
Grandpa married Esther Park (also Korean) and had three kids: John (my dad), Sam (our uncle), and Robina (Aunt Beanie.)
Dad married Samantha Clay (elementary school nurse and Non-Korean-American).
They had Rick.
And later, after many years of deciding if it was worth risking reproduction again?
Then I came along.
Uncle Solomon married Aunt Julie and they have one daughter, our cousin Amy.
Aunt Beanie is widowed and has two kids, Isaac and Bethany, who both live out of state.
These origin stories are more interesting when they’re about the strange and the super!
Anyway, this brings us to the last member of our family.
This brings us to Dale.
His bio doesn’t write itself, not like mine and Rick’s.
His is pretty much a blank slate.
He wandered into our lives and things have never been the same.
Even though the event itself … lacked pomp or fanfare.
It was early evening.
Dusk had settled upon the scene.
And a noise came from Rick's front lawn, out by the curb.
Truth be told?
We found Dale in the garbage.
This brings us to Dale.
His bio doesn’t write itself, not like mine and Rick’s.
His is pretty much a blank slate.
He wandered into our lives and things have never been the same.
Even though the event itself … lacked pomp or fanfare.
It was early evening.
Dusk had settled upon the scene.
And a noise came from Rick's front lawn, out by the curb.
Truth be told?
We found Dale in the garbage.