Notes
1 Because Phoenix Jones is a real, living person whom I respect and admire, and also because I had to take a certain degree of artistic license in this fictional story about him, I think providing endnotes for my sources as well as pointing out what I’ve invented for literary reasons is appropriate.
For information about Phoenix Jones, I relied on published news stories, his online posts, YouTube videos, and the following book interviews and articles: Jon Ronson, The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones (Riverhead Books, 2011); Keegan Hamilton, “The (Alleged) Adventures of Phoenix Jones,” Seattle Weekly, June 1–7, 2011; Nick Wong, “Phoenix Jones: Portrait of a Superhero,” fightland.vice.com/blog/phoenix-jones-portrait-of-a-superhero, April 6, 2015; Stephie Haynes, “Phoenix Jones: Getting to Know the Man Behind the Mask,” www.bloodyelbow.com/, March 28, 2015; and Ryan McNamee Productions and Phoenix Jones, “Phoenix Jones Stops Assault on Vimeo,” http://vimeo.com, October 10, 2011.
2 There is a photo of Phoenix Jones and superhero Buster Doe in the Dreaming comics and game store, which accompanies Ashby Jones’s story “Bam! Pow! Superhero Groups Clash over Roles, Methods,” Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2011. However, I have no idea if Phoenix Jones visited the Dreaming on October 8, 2011.
3 This expensive, elaborate version of Phoenix Jones’s super suit came, I believe, later when he had a fund-raising campaign to upgrade his costume, http://thephoenixjones.blogspot.com/, August 15, 2015.
4 Hamilton, “(Alleged) Adventures,” p. 13.
5 Catherine Avalone, “Randall Beach: The Bloody and Often Odd Life of a ‘Superhero,’ ” New Haven Register, posted April 4, 2015.
6 Those are real-life superheroes, but I don’t know who was with Phoenix Jones on this night of his arrest.
7 Hamilton, “(Alleged) Adventures,” p. 12.
8 Avalone, “Randall Beach,” p. 4.
9 Hamilton, “(Alleged) Adventures,” reports seeing Phoenix Jones in a Kia sedan, but I doubt he was driving that on this night.
10 Ibid., p. 11.
11 http://thephoenixjones.blogspot.com/.
12 Christina Ng, “Citizen Superhero ‘Phoenix Jones’ Arrested in Seattle,” Good Morning America, http://abcnews.go.com/US/citizen-superhero-phoenix-jones-arrested-seattle/story?id=14704985.
13 Jones, “Bam! Pow!”
14 Wong, “Phoenix Jones,” p. 14.
15 Ibid., p. 10.
16 Ibid., p. 11.
17 Hamilton, “(Alleged) Adventures),” p. 16.
18 The rest of this sentence is my imagined dialogue for Phoenix Jones.
19 Wong, “Phoenix Jones,” p. 11.
20 This entire scene is taken from McNamee Productions and Jones, “Phoenix Jones Stops Assault.”
21 This line about a “long day’s night” was the theme or creative prompt given to writers Claudia Castro Luna, Nancy Horan, and myself when we agreed to write new stories for the seventeenth Bedtime Stories literary gala sponsored by Humanities Washington on October 2, 2015. For these events, the theme must appear somewhere in the story.
22 Sara Jean Green, “Superhero Bound for Court,” Seattle Times, p. B1.
23 “Phoenix Jones Stops Attempted Murder,” King County News, September 23, 2015.