Ordinary Heroes
Remember these?
I am a comic book nerd. Have been since about 1976 or so when I got my very first Justice League of America comic from a spinner rack at the back of a drug store in small town Mississippi.
Opening those colorful pages and seeing these larger than life characters come to the rescue of people in distress gave me a sense of hope and excitement. The idea that I didn’t have to worry about an alien force attacking our planet was very comforting to a five year old. These men and women in spandex would be there to handle the heavy lifting. You could count on the good guys winning, and I liked that.
But life isn’t the same as the stories from the four color press. Sometimes bad things happen and the folks in tights don’t show up, but if you look closely, something far better is actually happening. Ordinary heroes show up.
These heroes are everywhere. Like the elderly lady that opens up her home to children after school that need help with homework until their parents get off work. Or maybe the man that takes the time to teach a child that is not his own how to throw a baseball. Maybe the people that ran into the World Trade Center to save anyone they could while everyone else was running out. Sometimes it’s off duty service men that take down an active shooter without firing a shot. Maybe it’s the neighbor that takes a meal to a family whose mother is sick, or the family that reaches out to the family that is different, in an attempt to build bridges instead of walls. Heroes are everywhere, if we just take the time to look.
In my new book Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Oliver Webber is an ordinary guy. Well, not exactly ordinary. He was born into unique circumstances, but even with a heritage like Oliver’s he still has to make the choice to be a hero. It’s not always easy, as a matter of fact, sometimes it’s life altering.
You might not have to tangle with a crazed occult obsessed pseudo-scientist, but the small acts of daily kindness that don’t get heralded on the evening news make you a hero to someone.
Hank Garner is the author of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and the host of the Author Stories Podcast. Get Seventh Son for the introductory price of 99 cents.
Oliver Webber has a secret. In fact, his family have been the keepers of this secret for thousands of years. What he doesn’t know is that the ancient evil that his family has guarded has just been loosed, and Oliver is the only person on earth that can stop it. People everywhere are disappearing, an evil madman dead-set on ripping the very fabric of our existence, and a demon possessed civil war general seeking revenge, set the Mississippi Delta on the edge of annihilation. Oliver Webber, along with his girlfriend, his dog, and a crazy conspiracy nut, fight against time, and a secret death cult, to find his destiny as the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
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