Read the Zapfic serial #GHAWG on LeoThreads to follow the transformation of a courier into a Harley-riding tool of God.
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TL;DR
What is GHAWG?
Zapfic Entries 71-77
7️⃣1️⃣ 2023-May-18 00:36:48
7️⃣2️⃣ 2023-May-19 10:35:54
7️⃣3️⃣ 2023-May-20 00:28:06
7️⃣4️⃣ 2024-05-22 11:58:18 (originally published on 2023-May-21 @ 00:05:09 at /@magnacarta/re-leothreads-zgpysqbg)
7️⃣5️⃣ 2023-May-22 00:35:42
7️⃣6️⃣ 2023-May-23 00:17:42
7️⃣7️⃣ 2023-May-24 00:01:24
Story Arc So Far
Next Week
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What Is GHAWG?
#GHAWG is short for "God's Hog: A Watchful Guardian." This fictional story tells how David Guardia, a courier and business owner from Bayonne, New Jersey, US moved into the next phase of his life after spending the final ten years of his ailing father's life helping him.
More details can be found in the first post of this weekly recap.
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Zapfic Entries 71-77
7️⃣1️⃣ 2023-May-18 00:36:48
| "CLEAR!" EMT needed a few attempts with the defibrilator before I responded. Then I needed to be treated for smoke inhalation. Worse ways to die than getting thrown 100 feet away by an explosion exist. I found myself at peace. |
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| 🏍️ Under normal circumstances, this would have been the end of the story; explosions involving highly flammable fluids tend to be fatal. But these are not normal circumstances for David Guardia. 🏍️ Had David Guardia continued to live the same-old life dealing with the same-old grind of working to pay bills, he may have felt regret on realizing he was going to die. Instead, he was doing something he had dreamed of for much of his adult life: riding to the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. 🏍️ As noted in the zapfic entry, there are worse ways to die, and that includes being denied to ability to live to one's full potential. |
7️⃣2️⃣ 2023-May-19 10:35:54
| Upon further review, I sustained broken arms, broken legs, and a punctured lung. Painkillers were administered. Doctors made sure the lung didn't get worse. When I arrived at the hospital, I was radiating a barely-there green. |
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| 🏍️ This zapfic entry serves as a "before" image need for comparison later in the daily zapfic serial. Think of some hapless klutz immobilized by a body cast after falling from the roof of a 3-story house. 🏍️ I forget where I read this long ago, but I recall reading about how low levels of radiation were found at the tomb of Jesus Christ where He was laid to rest. Could this radiation be the natural means used for the supernatural event known as The Resurrection? I don't know. But it made sense for me to incorporate this detail into the zapfic serial. 🏍️ The barely-there green was a hint used in The Matrix movies to show that what the audience was watching was taking place in the world of The Matrix. When the scenes shifted to Zion or elsewhere in the real world, there was no green tint. |
7️⃣3️⃣ 2023-May-20 00:28:06
| Worst was over. I was in Intensive Care with no ventilator. Vitals were minimal. Tubes handled inputs and outputs. External stimuli didn't reach me. It looked as if I was in a coma, yet I was reliving my trip from another view. |
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| 🏍️ During the first few months of the global pandemic era, nearly all COVID-19 patients who ended up with a ventilator ended up dead. Lack of ventilator was noted to remind us that people could be in Intensive Care without having COVID-19. 🏍️ We're familiar with tubes as inputs for things we need such as saline solution, vitamins, painkillers, etc. Tubes are also used for outputs-- what the body needs to eliminate-- and these tubes aren't fun for the patient to receive (especially the one entering through the nose). 🏍️ It's been said that coma patients can still sense what was happening around them even though they were unable to respond. I'm not sure how true that is, but that was the best way to describe this situation for David Guardia. What this really is, my fellow readers, is the start of the most eye-opening and mind-blowing journey of David Guardia's life. |
7️⃣4️⃣ 2024-05-22 11:58:18 (originally published on 2023-May-21 @ 00:05:09 at /@magnacarta/re-leothreads-zgpysqbg)
| ● Someone close to me tried getting my attention about the starter as I approached East Palestine, only I was riding solo ● Jacob Angel felt a strong need to talk with me ● Aníbal Rivera was OK until he was nudged to my bike |
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| 🏍️ This is the start of the 3rd-person view of the events as lived by David Guardia early in his ride to Sturgis. 🏍️ At the time I published the zapfic entry where David Guardia and an older gentleman talk about the good old days when children would ride Big Wheels, I didn't have a name for the older gentleman. This was the first opportunity I had to call the older gentleman by this name. 🏍️ I needed a way to get Aníbal Rivera (a character inspired by Geraldo Rivera) into the story. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, US when he's not working in the major media markets of New York or Los Angeles, and David Guardia was in Cleveland. |
7️⃣5️⃣ 2023-May-22 00:35:42
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| ● While looking for the last can of Spam, I felt the need to pick the "wrong" can ● The man who drafted me into the arm wrestling tournament thought it was a great idea ● Manny Rey entered my life to keep me from getting beaten |
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| 🏍️ That can of bad Spam saved David Guardia's life. Had he not felt nauseous, he would have kept riding his Harley-Davidson right into an exploding fuel tanker between western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. 🏍️ The 2nd bullet item set up the 3rd bullet item. David Guardia had a mission for his life, only he hadn't discovered it by then. He needed to be alive in order to carry it out. The arm wrestling tournament was the vehicle used to join him to his mission. |
7️⃣6️⃣ 2023-May-23 00:17:42
| ● Manny Rey handed me the sealed message for Harry Hoqualogue ● As soon as we met, Manny Rey had been directing me ● I was being introduced to riders I was saluting ● Someone deposited a roll of silver quarters before I arrived |
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| 🏍️ Although David Guardia would remain working as a courier, starting with this message Manny Rey needed delivered to Harry Hoqualogue his deliveries would be of a different nature. 🏍️ Manny Rey would play an important-- if limited-- role in the zapfic serial. He was giving David Guardia the final preparation he needed to take on the mission ahead of him. 🏍️ For David Guardia to buy a roll of silver quarters from the bank, someone had to bring it to the bank. Whoever sold the roll of silver quarters to the bank for face value (ten dollars) had no idea the quarters contained silver. This is one of the big fears of silver stackers: silver quarters being treated as fiat quarters. |
7️⃣7️⃣ 2023-May-24 00:01:24
| ● Bird dropping set up Manny Rey's uncanny predictive powers ● Manny Rey knew I used the term shieldmaiden ● Tall redhead was steered to the bar where Sinatra Hater slugged me ● Discovering Sturgis, Michigan wasn't accidental (Hyperlink added for this post) |
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| 🏍️ Manny Rey was in position to see the bird begin his "bombing run" and tried to warn David Guardia. The warning went unheeded. 🏍️ The tall redhead actually debuted in a Zapfic Monday entry whose prompt was freckles. She's essentially the same character, although for #GHAWG I switched her ride from a Harley-Davidson to a Victory motorcycle. The reason for that change will become apparent early in Act 3.🏍️ People know about Manhattan as a borough of New York City, but there is also a place called Manhattan, Kansas, US. We know about Miami, Florida, US, but there is also Miami, Ohio, US. Sturgis also has its related places. They are all Sturgis, but there is only one STURGIS people think of first: the one in South Dakota with the annual motorcycle rally. |
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Story Arc So Far
After being thrown 100 feet by an exploding fuel tanker, David Guardia's life had flashed before his eyes before he blacked out. Even as he was being taken to the hospital he was undergoing a transformative recovery. After ending up in a hospital Intensive Care Unit, he begins what could be called an out of body experience.
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Next Week
Zapfic Entries 78-84 see David Guardia in the hospital and in a coma, and in these entries we see what it's like from his point of view. The interlude between Act 2 and Act 3 continues.
GHAWG itself continues at LeoThreads, where Act 3 rolls on. David Guardia finally finds Harry Hoqualogue in STURGIS, only he doesn't want to take delivery of the message from Manny Rey.
Catch the latest zapfic entries for GHAWG at LeoThreads. Get caught up with GHAWG with these weekly summaries at LeoFinance and at the Scholar and Scribe community.
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GHAWG Navigation
To find other weekly summary posts such as this one-- or to read the serial without annotated commentary-- use the GHAWG Navigation threadstorm at LeoThreads. Within LeoThreads, hashtag #GHAWGnav brings up the navigation.