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Heroics
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Copyright (c)2002 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
First published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 2002

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He thought: He had gotten it all wrong.
His body no longer worked the way it wanted to. He had read that a man
with a gunshot wound -- a simple one, perhaps a slug going through the fleshy
part of the thigh, missing everything vital -- could die from the systemic
shock alone. He had always ignored that, thinking his heroes could survive
anything.
_He_ could survive anything.
Sobel lay face-down in a pile of leaves, the smell of decaying
vegetation rich in his nostrils. The ground was cold and damp, the chill
seeping through his flannel shirt and the knees of his jeans. His feet were
twisted awkwardly, but he felt no pain there, nothing except the throbbing in
his arm, trapped beneath him like a wounded animal.
It was beginning to rain, big fat droplets landing intermittently.
Water was sliding off his face, reminding him that he was alive, that he had
to take action.