1 A Day in the Life When you’re interviewing yourself in the bathroom mirror a fist under your chin makes the perfect microphone I pat my hair down so it falls around my head like a helmet That’s the way Drew Listerman the reporter on the Channel 7 news wears his hair Every weekend he hosts a special called A Day in the Life where he follows celebrities around and viewers get to see what a typical day is like for them I tuck a fallen strand behind my left ear furrow my brows to make a wrinkle just above 1
the bridge of my nose and round my shoulders like Drew Listerman And I’m on Good evening ladies and gentleman Today we’re celebrating a day in the life of Zachary Cooley Maybe you saw his picture in the newspaper on the day he stomped out a bunch of smoldering cigarette butts in the Pinemont Woods preventing what surely would have been Pennsylvania’s most massive forest fire Or perhaps you heard his name mentioned on the radio the morning he spotted a woman walking on the railroad tracks and got her to safety just moments before a speeding train whipped by Certainly you saw the story on the evening news about the time Zack rappelled out of a helicopter and rescued a man swimming in the ocean below Seconds later a school of great white sharks was spotted off the coast Young Zack is credited with saving hundreds no thousands of lives Please join me in welcoming birthday boy Zachary 2
Noah Cooley a real-life superhero I imagine viewers all over the country and around the world clapping and cheering and waiting to see me and I run a hand through my hair so it’s back in my regular style on the longish side and messed up like I just went for a superfast ride in a convertible top down Then I hold my fist out toward my reflection Well first off Drew I don’t know that I’d call myself a superhero I pause for a second and in my head a few thousand voices talk back to their TVs What Zack Of course you are But second of all I’m here to save even more lives with a special message And that message is Listen to your fears I thought the only thing to fear is fear itself Drew says Sorry Drew I say But you and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are sadly mistaken There are more things to fear than you could possibly count 3
