Ok, I've listened, pondered, listened again...
Mr. DeRego, my ONLY criticism on the story is that for a little bit in the middle of the story, the names all kind of ran together. Maybe that was just me, but I had to *think* about which character was being discussed for a moment... But only for a moment. "Right, Paul was the guy with..." happened in my head a few times.
Nothing a bit of character-fleshing up front wouldn't completely fix, and for all I know, that might have just been me. Both times I listened to it were in the car running errands.
I find this a strong story, dealing with many of the things that make "Supers" interesting; their human side. We had revenge, we had temptation, we had the stoic last man standing, we had the "grey area" trust, we had notion of everyone answering to someone...
We had true heroism.
Thank you, Mr. DeRego.
Write some novel-length Union Dues stories so I can buy some paper and put it on a shelf next to my Lafferty books for goodness sakes. I WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY!!!