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Table of Contents
Author’s Note 110 Nidrian Gardener
Jim #1 in its entirety 114 Looty
Seafood Platter 11S The Hindu
from Hell Marriage Game
Two Children 121 Quarry Story
Inadvertently Kill 132 This House
an Agent of the Devil
Through an Excess of 133 The Birthday Party
Youthful High Spirits 141 The Reform of the Apple
Da Invisible Hinge 142 The Stairs
37 The Hour of the Kitten 147 Screechy Peachy
41 Niffers 151 Vher Umst Pknipfer?
42 A Walk in the Foothills 152 Trosper
44 Big Red 155 Dive Deep
46 Enough Is Enough 159 Pulque
47 Dreamcorder 162 Echo
48 A Lousy Show 163 A Hometown Tale
49 Particular Mind 171 Obviously Not
62 Jim’s Discipline Camp 177 His Father Was
63 Good Medicine a Great Machine
64 Big Red 181 When The Lobster
65 This Is the Meat Whistles on the Hill
66 Horse Sinister 189 Cheap Work / My Hero
69 At the Old Estate Is a Bastard
75 Dinosaur Cage 190 Jimland Novelties
79 Li’] Rat 192 The Smudge-Pot
80 Jim Book of the Dead 193 Pulque
84 Rolling Cabine 194 Pulque
85 What the Left Hand Did 195 Boyfriend of the Weather
98 Almost Home 199 Jim #1, vol. 2 back cover
99 Let’s Play! 200 Jim #2, vol. 2 cover
105 Powerland
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: : eee )Pie are something else entirely, Iwouldn’t 7 surprise ees ‘In my early years Itused the yellowcrayon wisely andwell.es
Peo ee RG disappointment, or any sort of loss atall. Thats how Iknowl A scrubbed it as deeply and thickly as Icould into the grooves 4
don’t believe in them. pee a eS of 1my Wa It Disney's Bongo record so thatitwould never play Fe _
5 : : : On the other hand, if I were sally able to get to the topS again. Iwas afraid of therecord, afraid of its revenge i ifI age:
[e246 4 4 ofthat winding, narrowing staircase hidden somewhere in itout, afraid Imight accidentally hearitif 1 didn’t render it~
|: . : ae : the circular galleries of the hotel I have visited regularly in “unplayable. What scared me? Ttwas a soft oe of slightly
eae ( . dreams for the past fifty years, and if Iwere ‘to find nothing. hauntingvoices calling, “Bongo-bongo-bongo. ee Salta E
2. ere transcendental at the top of those stairs, I would be shattered. When I was through ruining Walt Disney'sS Bape I put i
; £ : oo oR fact Lmight never recover from sucha shock. I’m not joking. under themattress withw a dozen other non-living things and
> eee I don’t really know what other people do with their lives, got out A Child’s First Record by Frank Luther. The organ —
: 4 ee: but mine has been one long reiteration of‘ ‘How's that again?” _ that played throughout had a friendly confidential tone and —
ee Bee : _ in response to almost everything I have encountered since _ a matter-of-fact humility that I could appreciate, but neveri
Pe tat the days of lion-in-the-hall. I cannot do any math, I cannot —_ emulate. I thought of Frank Luther himself as nothing |but 2
: q : bees learn any geography, I cannot say what distinguishes good _a voice coming from a wall-mounted loudspeaker while the e
_-—— Jiterature from bad. I read very slowly and remember almost _ objects he spoke and sang about er ona ae did their —
4 eee: nothing. I can barely distinguish one human face from Dits, andvanished. he a
Ee Gh another; when I was courting my wife I had to memorize = When Frank Luther introduced thefelectao.sweeper, I :
f : ae what shewas wearing to pick her out of a crowd. I knew saw the same thing every time. It was horizontal and purple, ;
s soo who she was, all right; I just couldn’t remember what she —_ with comical blinking eyes covering its surface. Beyond that Ia
oo : ___ looked like. a couldn't see clearly. Naturally Icalled it The Sweeper. i. ie :
- /. ee Lee a] suppose I have experienced mother love, but I have ie I enjoyed thinking a
about The:Sweeper <and itshumoroous >
ae : xh to knowledge of it. I have good friends but feel it would be - possibilities. What ifi were to bring it
i Peat:
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to presumptuous to depend on them. 1 don’t trust anybody not and introduce it asmy father? They’rd bi a
disappear. I don’t trust my mind for everyday thinking, but— saainthechaparral
5 Swesperteundingslnga.:
Iam convinced that it has one very great function, which is _
to eventually make me aware of astounding things. It appalls rats ae threatened me.eeisbecpapause be ‘one. heck cn
me that it alludes to these things in the language ofthe show- a fine pal, no doubt about that.The
il wasthat Ialso.
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iccessfully dive into the pool iin what — and I became supernaturally « aware that scomething enormous was
IInitiation. In fact I never didlearn thatOz about to happen. The hair on my neck stood up and é the ye of46 ;
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hands and feet stung in1 anticipation.a2 % CeCe. ;
And then—how vividly I rememberit! saw;a lie bulbo ous,
1 fret death, came See sic went on rubbery-looking froglike creature emerge ffrom the bottom of the
; I that he h didn’ tgive two thoughts to heaven, screen and rest its two-fingered forearms ona wall with a volute.
: wasn't sure why he was frying to ae that ‘One eye opened and extended upward, looking inquisitorially into
the sky, as the red-lipped mouth curved ina i deep frown.
I was so shocked I tipped 3my desk over backward onto the
6 ie) > oO oO me = SF>| = Se= aS - woman sitting behind 1 me, causing an immediate fracas from which
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tie decked Princess Ozma, and he accedes to the pondered that frog and drawn it 3don’t know how many hundreds
. Bc ee Thats real ead) You can't make up of times. .
The frog’s appearance opened the ct green gates at the top
Es of the street for me, and I entered the compound. I was glad to be
a8 byeA the grimmest, bie mostlarly among these soda-pop survivalists and their free-and-easy ways.
ychotic. For one thing, there was a fifty-foot One obstacle to my full embrace of this new world was the sad fact
Ye mpletely <amoral. I vomited right on the book. that my drawing skills had always been decidedly subpar. My ninth-
wasan invisible ore calice:a me po- gy-ral,, _ grade art teacher wrote on my report card, “Drawing and painting
1
are not Jim’s forte.” He was right about that; I had no discernible
ewa 1of cuttingae ie afbauen Acaiin the hook talent. What I did have was the determination to express my view of
y, 1 aeee i my ears when The Sweeper came onstage. the world through art. I've been told by people I knew back then that
( n yee
Hane Thad barely graduated from high school, had no they were impressed by my determination that I was a great artist,
te sleducation, training oro prospects, was living at home, had never
a: even though absolutely everythingIdid was worse than poor.
_tak en dru: s,and was out of desperation taking a few classes at the I spent most of my twenties trying to develop the drawing skills
~ sublimely logyES ad College. I would need to make my contribution. I didn’t succeed until I was
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NANCY S@UEAKED AND MORRIS TURNED TO HER. "HOSH THAT
TINY MUG," HE SAID, "AND PUT ON YOUR LIGHTEST WRAP.
THEY'RE GATHERED FROM MILES AROUND IN THE STORY-ROOM, AND
ALTHOUGH THEY ARE A ROUGH LOT | THINK IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE |
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THE STAIRISAK WAS SECLUDED SO NONE CFE THE TALKERS KNEW
THAT THE CHILDREN INTRUDED. THEY SNEAKED QUIETLY THROUGH
THE HCT RAFTER AIR AND TOOK UP WATCHEUL FOSITIONS BEHIND |
THE ROPE HEAPS AND TEA CRATES, AND LISTENED, NMANCT AND
CARL, INITH MORRIS LISTENING TCO, THE FIREPLACE LIGHT
CRANGE IN REFLECTION ON HIS GLASSES.
THE STORY ROOM WAS CROWDED INITH A CIRCOLAR MCB THAT
ATTENDED WITH RAPT ATTENTION THE SPEAKER IN THE MIDPLE, AN
OLD MAN WITH ALONG GREY BEARD AND EXCITED EYES. THE
MES LISTENING \NERE CF MANY DIFFERENT SOBS AND LOCATIONS,
THERE WERE FARMERS, FUMBERS, TRASHMEN 1 DOCTORS, PRARM-
AASTS 1 SAILORS, SAILORS ,TAILORS , INHALERS ) NAILERS, SCALERS,
PALEONTOLOGISTS, GONERNORS ehigtee tin TEACHERS - AUL SORTS,
RBOUT FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND INA
OUTSIDE THE NIGHT INAS WILD. THE cs OF THE N\CCN HAD BE-
GUN TO THICKEN BEFORE SUNSET, AND GROWN To THE BUISTER OF
A FAT WOSSCON ,AND THE SKY WAS CLOGGED WITH TANGLED FLUMES
ANNO TINISTED LUMBS, ASD AROMAS OF PEACH AND CHERRY AND ColD
BIR. ENERK GREEN FROG CLUNG INTO THE MUD , AND EACH EMITTED
No PEEPS BoT THE CRICKETS WERE IN A CHIRPING FRENZY. THE
— N RALLED ALL ONER THE SKY, CLINGING FAITHFULLY TO HER
SEARS!" CRIED THE OLD NAN. "BEARS! BEARS” THE CROIND MOT-
TERED KNOWINGLY. "BEARS!" HE CRIED AGAIN; THEN HE CALMED
A gala
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“FELLERS" HE SAID, THERE ISN'T A ONE OF YOu THAT \NWOOLD'T

HANE BEEN susT AS |cARED AS | WAS WWHEN 1 SAIS ALL THEM
BEARS A-CHARGIN’ TOWN THE HILLSIDE TOWARDS WHERE ! WAS
A SETTIN' ON THE FORCH. THE GROUND SHOCK FPALPABLY FROW THE
AGGREGATED GLOING OF THEIR, THUNDERIN' Paws, AND EVEN AS THEY
RAN ,HEADS DOWN AND STUBBY LI'L TAILS UP, Elr WERE YEL-
LING 'MRAW, MRAINW”IN THE MOOT FEARFUL WAY! I WAS GIDDT
WITH ALARM AND RAN UP AND COWN THE PORCH STEPS ,TRYYIN' To
THINK OF A WAY OUT OF MY AINFUL DICEMNA ,BUT MG IDEAS CAME,
ASD THEM BEARS SUST KEPT A-CHARGIN... ou MY... IT WAS DUST
ANEUL. FINALLY, BUST AS 1 COOLD NAKE OVT THE MUSCLES IN THE
FIRST LINE OF 'BEARS' EYES AND SMELL THE SALMON ON THEE
BREATHS, \ GOT AN INSPIRATION. | SUMPED INTO THE HOUSE AND
SALT THE POOR. AND sUST IN TIME/S THE FIRST BUNCH OF BEARS
TO GET ON THE FoORCH BEAT ON THE DOOR, WITH POLBLED- UP PANS
AND RANG THE COW -BELL/'
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OF THE oe, SAID Wet eet "DID THEM BEARS CEANE MUCH
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SHADOWY PARENT BEHIND STEERING WHEEL.
KYO KNOW THESE COUNTRY LANES AS WELL AS | Do/'SAID
PARENT'S SLACK JAW. THE CLD PEA- GREEN AR WAS
TEARING. ALONG AT A FRANTIC CLIP, HALE IN ALU THEROTS
AND SHAKING FIT TO COLLAPSE. OLSAD WAS ERSOYV ING-
THE SPEED AND THE ROUGH RIDE, THE CRACKED AMBER.
THE FEEL OF RUSTY
PLASTIC. WINGS CN THE PASH BOARD , AND
SPRINGS DIGGING IsTe HER THE SMELL OF
BACK

HOT DAY, RESTING HER, ARM ob THE ROASTING SILL-

“TUE TREE
OS STILTS,“ SHE SAID.
THE YELLOW HOUSE HOVE SUDDENL'T INTO VIEW AND
THE CAR SUID NOISILY TO A HALT IS FRONT OF IT-
"YAY WE'RE HERE," SAID SUSAN.
509 AN'S GRANDMOTHER WNADPLED OUT TO THE CAR TO
ASSIST IN THE DISEMBARKING. “HELLO, HELLO! "SHE
SANG OOT. PEERING INTO THE CAR SHE ASKED THE
DRIVER , “WHICH ONE ARE Yous *
UMW THE MOTHER, THE DARK PROFILE SAID ATTER A FAO.
“SHE REALLY NADE THAT CLD CAR HOP) "SAID SUSAN.
MONT THAT FINE,"
“WELL, GOOD- BYE."
SAID SUSAN'S GRANDMOTHER.
THE CAR MOVED CFE DOWN THELARE.
"OV, BOY |“ SAID SUSAN. LISTEN TO THOSE Cicap~as"
"THEY NE DRIVEN ME ABSOLUTELY
KER GRANDIVCTHER, “LITERALLY CRAZY."
AHL GOT CACADAS MEAN KITTENS
YOU'D BETTER TALK To yYouR, ‘ ™
FATHER ABOUT THAT, “CHUCKLED HER
MOTHER. “HE'S BEEN AS BUSY ASA
CHINAMAN IN A BRASSIERE FACTORY
“HOORAY! YELLED SUSAN, “SAY,
WHERE'S Biscuits. ”
“Biscolts."
“WAH, YOU KNOW, OLD BISCUITS."
(UM HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THAT QUESTION,
ASAN ,“SAID HER GRANDMOTHER.
“IT IS A HELL THAT
CANNOT BE INAGIRNED. | CAN ONLY SPEAK NOUS BECAUSE
Oe AGA MTSE OW, MY, THE COLOR CF BLUE
"WELL, I'M GOING TO GO SEE GRANDPA )""SAID SUSAN.
"IS KE DOWN IN HIS HOLES "
38
 ., NWHERE ELSES “LAUGHED HER GRANDMOTHER. “HERE.
TUL TAKE YOUR LITTLE SALISE. 1 HOPE You'RE GooD AND
HUNGRY WE'RE HANING POPCORN FOR LUNCH."
OH POY, POPCORN|"SCREAMED
SHE SET CLT IS & DEAD RUN FoR
THE HOUSE. AS
COSAN RAN AND RAN AND RAN. “GOD, "SHE THOUGHT,
“THIS HOLSE MUST BE A HALE -MILE LONG.“
SHE WAS SINEATY AND WINDED WHEN
FINALLY TORNED THE CORNER AND COL -
VIOLENTLY WITH THE NIDRIAN GARDENER “YW
WAS STANDING . MOTIONLESS, STARING ~ INTO THE
BUDE SHADOWS . OF THE ANCCADO TREES. E
“OuGH /“ GASPED SUSAN. “EXCUSE ME.
SUE RIGHTED Y HERSELF AND SCAMPERED Dow
THE CEMENT STAIRS.
“HEY | GRANDPA/" SUSAN YELLED, FOUNDING ON THE
WOODEN DOOR TO HIS INORKSHOP- }
“Ht, SUSIE! CRIED THE CLD GENT AS KE LET HERIN.
“WHATCHA DOIN'Z" ASKED SUSAN, HUGGING HIM.
“OU, THE CATASTROPHES HANE BEEN KEEPING ME PRETTY
BUS,“ HE SAID, CHUCKLING AT HIS LITTLE PON. HE LEDNORTH
HER
TO WS CLUTTERED PORKEGERCH, SOFT CUER INHICH
LIGHT FROM A GROUND -LENEL ININDOW PLAYED. IT WAS A
SCOTUING YET STIMULATING SIGHT.
SUSAN'S GRANDFATHER TOOK A WHITE CARDGOARD
KITTEN BOx DOOSP FROM A CROWDED SHELE- HE RE —
MOVED THE LID AND TOOK OUT A STIFF LITTLE BLACK
NANX WITH NO HIND LEGS. r |
“NOW THIS LITTLE CREATURE'S SORTA SPECIAL »” SAID
DPSAN'S GRANOFATHER TENDERLY. “SURE HAS COME IN
FOR A LOT CE ABUSE. THE LEGS CAME CFE LAST NCVEMBER,
—(GCVESS, AND HE'S BEEN LYINS AROUND IN AN ATTIC SitcE
THES. GUTS HANE ALL DRIED UP COMPLETELY 5 LOOK ."" HE
SQLEEZED THE SHRIVELLED ABDOMENS THERE WAS A
pees Shere aap ep CELLOPHARE.
< KITTY, "SAID SUSAN.
HER GRANDEATHER PLACED THE TINY BODY IN A BLK
CANNISTER, ADDED <OME LIQUID FRON A ECTTLE, AND
POT THE UD ON. HE SHCOK THE CANNISTER GENTLY.
CARE FOR A NMARTINIG" HE ASKED. SUSADS SNORTED.
“BRE {OO GROWING HIM Some LEGS 2" SHE ASKED.
“WER “SAID HER GRANDFATHER, EASING DOWN IpToO
HIS CLO CAK DESK CHAIR. “EN ERYTHING SHOOLD BE
MAST ENOUGH BY TOMORROW NIGHT. IS THE MEAPTIME
1 GOT SOME NCE YOU COULD HELP ME FINISH UF. "
"YAW, “SAID SUSAN. DO THEY NEED EARS "
"JOST SO WAPPENS THEY DO. THEY'RE AS EARLESS AS
SCRENPRIVERS SUST NOW. | GOT SOME NEW MATERIAL
39
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FRENCHU...GOT A GOOD CCLOR , A NICE MILKY FINK. HERE.
“SOUR ISETTE,'" SUSAN READ AS SUE TOOK THE Sfeol.
“WHAT DOES THAT MEANT “
Des vona igsea1b WER GRASO GT ITE "IT'S FRENCH, 1
Ess. HER uNcCH."
KE LIETED THE CONER CFF A GLASS PAN THAT CONTAINED
AX FEATURELESS MOUSE BCDIES IN A ROW LIKE ENCHICATAS.
WHILE SUSAN CAREFULLY PUNCHED OUT TWELWE EARS
FROM THE THIN WARN FELTLIKE MATERIAL , THE CLD MAN
TOCK SOME SPROLTING TAILBEANS FROM & CORL OF WET
BLOTTING PATER AND TUCKED THEM INTO THE MICE'’S
HIND QUARTER S WITH A DELICAT E :
“THESE LITTLE S@ VEAKERS'LL
RROOND LIKE THE DICKENS BY NEXT WEEK ,"HE SAID.
“MAYBE THEY'LL GNAW THROUGH SOMERODY 'S
ELECTRICAL INSULATION, “SUGGESTED J SVSAN.
“COULD BE, COULD BE, SIGHED HER GRANDFATHER.
“GOS, | LONE RODENTS. “
“You AMAKE THE eect ONES,“ SAID SUSAN:
“PONT YOU TALK
UCARAIS/ “ GCOLDED HER GRANDFATHER. OU
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GEWIND THE TILE NEAR THE BOTTOM CE THAT POOL.
SUC LONE FROM A DOCTOR. AND THESE PILLS ARE ENPTY,
THE MOST FUN AND THE LEAST BEALTIFUL CFALL. 1
REMEMBER WELL HOLS THEY Go FLAT AND VANISHIN
WATER. CH GRANDNOTHER , (OU HAVE SURROUN DED
YOuR SELF INITH SUCH BEAUTY! | DON'T USDERSTAND
YOUR, CONPLICATED HEART, BUT 1 LONE TO SEE LOuR PIUS.

63
 | GoT A BABY Ly (| SPENT
POSSUM LAST (RY LAST NicuT

Uy,
SAY, | KNow
WHERE THERE'S
A MOUSE WITH A
BREKEN LEG HIDING
UNDER A BOARD

Vif
Mies
His PONY = WANT To,
| ee eal Athy HO ¥ Sie HIM < 4
ONER THERE... AZ Se ==
. I Anes | MAY DO IT...

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64
 “THIS 1S THE MEAT
THAT CHANGED ME, DAD!”

E nsnorttlement and crayle! Turn the flow pad of snot my way, dad! Nothing like
this has turned up on the sidewalk before, and I am the one who found it.
A head skinned is a head no more. There’s a thing called a skull; pop it into an acid
bath and watch the brain float free! I’m a little miracle! You should have seen
me—with lightning jabs I struck, the sheath parting, the membrane turning to gum,
the nerve bundles crunching beneath my furious radula.

But when I saw the face, The face was right on I’m telling you, Dad, you And you never will.
I was amazed! the brain! never lived this long.

was like a pirate this morning, drunk and joyous and praying
with my penis out. Nobody took me aside, nobody
called me away. I ate my fill and guess what? It was
only a tiny amount! Now I am sick with light, glory-
poisoned. And I frankly admit it, J will not share this
with anyone. Oh, Dad, aren’t I wonderful?

65
 i WAS DINING Of CHICKEN
Iss A CAFETERIA . THERE WAS
SOME SORT OF A POLITICAL

FACE WAS IN SH -HIS

vee FANS once
THE HALL. IT SEEMED TO
COME ISTO TRHECAFETERIA
THROUGH THE HUGE Con -
CEN TRICALLYT CIRCOLAR
VENT IN THE CEILING my THE SEA
OVER MY TABLE, A HOLLOW, RIRPLANE
\
S FALLING INTO
Fone eo UP AGAINST
ANGRY, PROPAGA NDIZING, r,CROWDED FREEWAYS OVER-
BOOMING NOICE THAT WEPT NG, TRENCH WARFARE IN
ON AND ON ABOUTNATURAL THE SUBURES — IT WAS DEMORAL-
AND UNNATURAL DICACTERCS IZING AND DEPRESSING} AND AS
HUMGRY ASIWAS
( COLLOM'T CAT
AMY MORE OF
NAM CHICKEN, FOR
IT HAD COME TO
SUMBOLIZE FOR
ME THE TERRORS
CF LIFE ON THIS
WRETCHED PLANET.
1 GOT VP ANDLEFT
RAY HOME WAS SENERAL MILES AWAY AND
EARLIER Im THE EVENING | HAD BEEN AN -
TICIPATING THAE WALK WITH PLEASURE.
NOw, HOWENER, I WISHED THAT 1 VDSERE
, HOMAGE ALREADY. MY HEART WAS HEAVY
AND M1 MIND WAS AGITATED. THE STREETS WERE EMPTY BUT 1
BEARD THINGS THAT DID NOTHING TO EASE MY DISCOMFORT: 1
HEARD PEOPLE RUM AING DOW! SIDESTRECTS, 1 HEARD

Wait THAT ORDTHROWN

THe WORED INTO SOC ANT
FRENZIED WH1S PERED COopPVERSATIONS In THE BUSHES, 1

Ww \ OSsU0C NS
APPALLING DARKNESS OF SPIRIT Z

66
 | HAD NOT EVER BEGUN TO FORMULATE THIS RHETORICAL QUES-
Ton IN MAY MIND WHEN THE ANSWER ) IN DIM AND INCOMPLETE
TO ME. IT WAS A HORSE 5SOMETHING TO
OO A HORSE.ITSELF
WITHREVEALED
FORM, THE WORLD HAD GONE To HELL BECAUSE OF A
HORSE, OR FOR THE SAKE OF SOME HORSE OR ANOTHER.---SOME
HORSE OR HORSE PRINCIPLE , A GAD HORSE OR SOMETHING I™ THE
SHAPE OF A HORSE.

THE AWARENESS BROUGHT ITS { COUVLO NOT PREPARE M-

OWP KETTLEDRUMS AND! FELT MY- SELE 5 § COULD BARELY WALK. 1
SELF BECOME WNEAK AND SCARED, CREPT ALONG oP HUME FEET,
FOR THE VAGUE AND STIMULATING CONETRING PERHAPS A DOZER
PLEASURES CF THE ANGUT'S MYS-
TERIES HAD BEEP DISPLACED IN MY
BEART BY A SICKENING HORROR
CF THE HORSE. | REALIZEO THAT
ANY HORSE I ENCOUSTERED THAT
MIGAT WOULD BETHE WioRST
THING IVAGIMNABLE.

NOT DARE -
FOR I WAS AFRAID OF WHAT
MIGHT ANSWER THE DOOR.
im THIS PITIABLE STATE 1
TURMED DOWN AN ALLEYWAY.

IT WAS A LONG, LONG ALLEY

AMD THOUGH Mu GAIT KAD

TRE EWPD. TH
COME IM WAS FAR BEHIND
ME.TAE REALIZATIOCR:
PAW NED THAT 1 WAS INA
GAD FosiTicr: TO ESCAPE
WERE 1 BESET BY SUPER- _. AND JUST ASIT DIDI HEARDTHE oP,
IOR STRENGTH AND SPEED... CLO AOP CF A LOPING HORSE //

67
 HEADS
Is THE SASMINE -
| SCENTED BREEZE.
Nc
SAW A HORSE SMOKING A
AGARETTG /OR RATHER, ' SAW
ITS SHADCUS..- ANMSD THEN 1
REAUZED THAT IT OSAS™'T A
HORSGAT ALL, BUT THE SHA-
Cow OFA DEAD CROW INA
TREE, CAST VPOM ANS ANCIEMT FUSE BOX IN VOHICH AM ELECTRICAL
COPSNECTION WAS SPUTTERING AND SMOKING. :

TREMBLING LOtTH THE THEN CAME A SsHock THAT NEARLY

VICLENMCE CF MU FEARS FELLED ME Of THE SPOT. | HAD BECOME
AMO THEIR SLDDEN RES DIMUT AWARE OF A RHYTHMIC CREAKING
CLLTION S, | WALKED NOISE, AYD 1 WAS A LITTLE APPREHENSIVE
BRAISKLY BUT LYITHOLT BECAUSE | FEARED IT MIGHTBE A HORSE
SPIME , LIKE A IVAN 1 ROCKING THE POOR CE ITS STALL. BUT
SEARCH OF A VACANT WHER | CAME TO THE Ep OF THE TALL
RESTROOM. PLANK FENCE | HAD BEER WALKING
aes
r ine8 ALONG SIPE 1 SAW USHAT HAD BEEP .
MAKING THE SOUND: A CHILD'S SWING-
SET sToco”d 1 THE MIDDLE OF AREG -
LECTED AND UNINMOURD YARD, APDONE
OF THE SWINGS, THOUGH VACANT,
WAS MONIING BRISKLY BACK AND
FORTH AS IF OCCUPIED.

AT FIRST 1 WAS CURIOUS, THEN CONFUSED - THEN INCREDU LOLS,

THER, AS THE NIGHTNARICH IMPLICATIONS “OF THE SCENE HIT
ME FULL IS THE FACE, SO TO SPEAK, | WAS SEIZED WITHA
HORROR SO STRONG MY HEART TOMELED IND MY CHEST AND M'T
MUSCLES TURNED TO RAGS. 1 STCOD PARALYSED FOR MANY
SECONDS BEFORE 1 BECAME UNLOCKED ENOUGH TO RUA,AND
THEM RUN 1 1D — SNUCK INTO THE tNMENSE SMILIAYG
HEAD OF A sINISeTER CHESTNUT Bars

NOTHING It) THE WORLD CAN WER

AGAIN FRIGHTED ME AS MUCHAS
THAT HORSE DID. LOL GLIMPSED

68
 Ae GRE OLD ESCA | Yd (ATS Mla 7 = 1 = SEG oT : ss

, => Van's THESE GROUN

OH, WE'RE SO LUCKY To N aa Anink, Necree ee
LIVE HERE IN THIS yee LIKE LIVING IN
BEAUTIFUL PLACE! 1 CAN'T = — Gas THE MOST
ENEN THINK OF HOW WE “hy, if BEAUTIFUL PARK
EVER ENEN CAME HERE, \ “GAM : I've ENER EVEN
IT'S SO WONDERFUL! A NW wil j DREAMED oF/

IT'S $O GREAT TOTHINK

THAT THERE'S SO MUCH /
OF IT WE'VE NEVE

>
=-

ca

ry
* he ONS, :

| Sagi
r

ete Seth;

\) Z
peng NN, .
WfCh
Wil og
VALINE

bi,
Os
Ls.

AND THE BEST PART IS WE VY 2 TIN mM) iy

DON'T HANG TO SEE ANYONE ! I fy OH, YOURE SusT A SOCIOPATH.
ELSE UNLESS WE WANT To / : es f ar "M GLAD WE KNOW So
WEEKS ANY PEOPLE... AND I'M
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD
TO TONIGHT... !

WAR CZ
a7 Au CZ
y3¢

ae

S=

69
 ~: DN DOKL S Af Sead Ne: ZINN: BIS ‘

SUST
LMAYCOUC
AND THE FALL asLEEP i
WITH
GREGORY TONIGHT... 7 =F
H
i

y WELL... | HANE TO ADMIT 1 AM TOO... ON

"M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING
SENNIFER BUSKIN AGAIN, Bb
You WON'T
ANYWAY... SHE REALLY
GINES ME A LIFT.
ee
MIND 2
29, DONT BE
SOR RIDICLLOUS !

CRA
ay As

HN (hn

= :
OH, | KNOW, BUT (T'S OU, SMELL THAT BREEZE /
SUST THAT | CAN'T \GWe Gi
BELIEVE THAT WE pee ~
ACTUALLY HAVE ALL GoD, THAT FEELS Good
THIS FREEDOM ! AND ON MY FACE! IF THESE
\ FEEL SO GooD ! CLOTHES WEREN'T SO
COMFORTABLE I'D TAKE
'EM OFF AND HANNE A
GCOD \WNIND BATH !

LY
LEZ

4 QA.
ME Too, BUT MY CLOTHES FEEL He
TOO NICE... | LOVE MY COAT... Wy

70
 - ee
OH, LOOK AT THESE...
THEY'RE SO SACRED...
SO HOLY...
ITS AN ALTAR, ORA
SHRINE, OR SOMETHING /

a
Aft
4

Ky
LON

iy " Ries
|ili, eae
sry
TAK
UH... SHOULD WE... OM... \KNow / LET'S PUT THEM IN
SHOULD WE PUT THAT BIG ROOM WITH
THEM BACK 2 THE LITTLE STAIRCASE
NAW... WHAT WINDING Up/
FoR = NOBODY
OH, TH
Pedrecy

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Fe
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71
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THc
‘5 HE DOING, weSIN EN T
) ND
BING THAREROUE? wa Bp
DONT CAMB ENISE DOWN
PO RE R 2

AUS

Wa sp NON
b
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Vi aN R i NAN HA
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fad

To LINE HERE,
own, ‘BOOT
CUse ME
CKGRINATE. PROPERTY.
LT THIS oe
TUIRTY YEARS AGO...

TD | Y aR
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atl
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Naa

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Yip

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———_——_

72
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SHES MENG 2 Cee ore eke

KH DARN
(2)
NoT TRoOmP ‘ON THE Moss ciKe THe?
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THE
SURINGE
THE RELICS /
LITTLE
AND

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FOR SOMETHING @ AA YZ

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IT'S... OM... UML UH... UJ
yn :

FWEET! Fweer!/
WAIT VUNT WHEEECCO!/

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HEY / HEY, Boy/
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FWEET! FWEET! THERE'S
1,
we

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RINGS
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Goo Do ae SEE YOU
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OH THIS IS MY SURE WAS /
PET FROG, RICHARD f
YoU MEAN
UM. HAVING A E WAS HERE To TAKE
DEDA Vu! : ie HIM AWAY ‘oe
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fon VEANN... HE BELONGS

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HE RE...
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74
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Paat Was SHEN J Was co
ur YEARS

CALA
RIAL Pisc
How tHey Me.
TO Viscuise
WILE Bur

D BROVGH
ANOTHER MY STE
WIstfors art
NENER TOLO
FONE CREPT
GREAT Sti0Us of MEPACE BUT
TURN MENER Gor CLOSE ANP 1
WASN'T AFRAID OF THEM. SO
JOST STARGD. 1 WAS ACTUAL ME
GLAD To HAVE THEM AROU LY
ND, 1
FEAT THAT I MIGHT WANT
FRIENDS ON HAND HER MT
PARENTS Fin AULy CAME
(ns TO MYRDER ME-
 AND
TH A
1 HAD
MY MOTHER PICKED meup
AND TOOK ME tome p
WE To

TRAT TH
BIRTHDAY TomoRROW
S CON

CAN 1 STAY UP UNTIL MIDNIGHT2”,

ASKED
|MIDN . .| HAD HEARD ABOUT
IGHT
“TONIGHT, TES," SAID MY
FAT

€ ;
T TOM HALLOWEEN
pA aes uae om THE DESK.

76
 CLOCK LIKE THE
AO CART Aa abel a
WALL: CEN ows oF

Mo MENTs ‘ S ee
eOlS |
HORS BATLCRREED
-
-
THE CEILING v DELICATELY.TH oo
FILLED with MACNEMENT, COLORED SHAPES AND sucer

a
WAS FULL OF A NEL TROPICAL LIGHT. My PALMS irda

TARY HELICOPTER SYMBOLIZING MY FATHER

SAT OP A PELICATE LITTLE TABLE. THE LIom
arco AGAIS. I SCAMPERED BACK INTO
4 ROOM. ,, voice TRAT CAME ovuT
SIM = ape IT WAS MY FATHER
OF A Lowue™ Soap!” | YELLED. “THANK

Pear
1 HEARD Mr MOTHER'S SMOOTH DRUNKEN acces

Ic KMOv
, :
A DINOSAUR! THEY DON'T SKis t AAAV eE
MORE. AMD ou DIDM'T REALLY PRomisg.”
OMLY SILENCE o
His END, as

LED:
 vo THER,
HARPLY. “INE SEEN THE WAY
AT HIM WHEN HE EATS.”
ERY WORRIED. CAN 1 Come AND SEE
Dp
"HANE You

DooR TED To
se THEM ne HE RIT CHEN BUT
aA Ee Eee OF CAGES

PEAR WUT THE MOTTE

THINGS In THEM.

INS ANOTHER WAS ART 5

HERE WAS A HUGE PADLOCS

PIPES PAINTED BLUE. MY FATHER

AGAIN. INSIDE THIS CAGE WAS THE
PRELETON OF A TYRANNASAURUS,
COMPLETE EXcEPT FoR THE HEAD
WHICH WAS MISSING ENTIRELY,
= HATS NOT A FOSSIL, SAID MK
FATHER'S LOUDSPEAKER Nlolce.
“THAT'S THE REAL GUY.”
“BUT WHERE'S THE suit”
1} ASKED THE Voice.
*LOOK AROUND," IT SAID,
1 DIV, AND THERE IT WAS IN ITS
OWN LITTLE CAGE ops
THE GRASS, ALL ALONE.
WHEN 1 SAW THaT,
1 ALMOST LAUGHED
My HEAD OFF.

78
 . aS
RT WNP.
S ’ Shee’ QV [i
5, Os
4

IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF SHAPES, WHERE FRitmp ALL THIS WORLD HAS BEEN LEFT
CALLS LPON FRIEND, NOMEN MEET IN Two's To THEM I8 THE GLORY OF THE
AND THREES To FIGHT WITH TIME, DAYTIME

THE WOMEN HANE GOnE TO SEED - SEED Like LI'L

RAT — AND THEY SWAY IN THEIR FORMS, SOET
AWD HONEST IN THE NORNING, THEY LOCK To
BECONE BOILED: SWEET TONES FoR LOUSY
KIS HARD PON A WORDS, THEY CALL EACH OTHER CYNIC,
DECANTER GEMTLEWONAN, MY DEAR. WHEN THEY
ARE DRONE THEY DOWELL. THEY Smoke,

fo} \N CW BLT IT IS
\F THERE 19 A FIRE IN Ke WOULD BE
ASHAMED To SoA eee iMmea aoe Gennes
THE LI'L RAT HOUSE Touch &
WHAT CAN HE Doz NOTHER'S
SHRIMP LEG

"LUC
RAT"
©\A65
DOORMAN
JoHN
Bt

79
 aR
R_@as
e”™

TW0 DOLLARS A
pens » THE TIM BOCK
OF THE DEAD \>
PRICED BEYOND THE
REACH OF SINCER
RENUNCIAT
Is THERE
PRINTED HERE INS
ITS ESTIRETY, EX-
CEPT FOR THE
NEXT -To-THE-LAST
PAGE, WHICH IS
BLANK ANYWAY.
Ow (>

I> CHINALRY GoonZ

'SIM' BOOK CF
THE DEAD
IN ALL ITS FRISKY
INGESULCUSNESS
15 © NARH 1163
BY SIM \WCCORING
ANO 15 DEDICATED
TO THE ERADICATION
OF PSYCHIATRY.
2.0. BOX 1CO7S
GLENDALE ,CAN 209.
A MOMENT OF SILENT
PRAYER IS INCLUDED
WITH EACH COPY

80
81
 KE You E DEAD ree
EN You AR |

AND THE BODY, MW

BODY, THE FISH'S BODY,
THE HORSE'S, 15 EASILY
KILLED, ANDO ALINAKS
DIES ,FEET FIRST, AND
LATE,
TERRIFIED, TOO LATE
TOO LATE ,TCO
TO RISE A LITTLE
THROUGH IWORK FROM
ARE BRACK OF THIS
FILTHY NASTELAND...
YOUR LIFE IS A SHINING
STRR THINNER THAS
A NOLT AND GIGADTIC
IN MEANING...

82
 O” \NILL NOT
-KWART Justice

83
 : ge

OLLING...
OA
ee
A

ALONG SIDEWALKS INTENDED

FOR USE BY LIVING MEN
AND THEIR FAMILIES

RUMORS OF IT
74

2. You DREAM OF IT AT NIGHT

,
\ ; A : B 4

aw
= 4. You SEE AND TOUCH IT
ee: ae Pe Ss iG

Satae- a,

atine eee your servant

Your water bought-a-horn. This little trial
will put you back in the candy shell, Mr. Big
Johnson- and the youngster, why, his minute
balances on a blade. Try to call out, you
have no arms, no chin. This is the reason we
Gq" take big chances; cut off our eyes and we
i just keep rolling. Two little snots at home in
“ TT. a shrub. The collie's saddle nose pries
CABINE temptingly. | crave that black snup.
Rolling Cabine stood in deep water until YOU saw DEATH.
 LA We DNA GOSH THIS
) iy)DAY IS GREATS
MEG ONE
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VRNISHED HEAD NATTERED

Aer: A VoIcCe AS WILD AND
XY OWN AND LED ME

THIS CORK LooKs

aosStee
FAMILIAR, TOS...
RAZY BLT I THINK

FROM THAT WAX

THAT COMES
ON CHEESE!

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85
WHAT USE HAD | FOR Gop BUT _THERE CAME A TIME WHEN | STOOD UP BEFORE
One Bon me THENS THATLEAE AND DARED IT To BURN ME Ih ERK,
YoU THINK2 IT CURLED LP The A

Pee‘ Now wyereD DID | NEGLECT WIM2 5cm

rx
rill APs ;
eo &' Go Hs Be Gov DAMN IT... WANE | GoT
as TO BE ALWANS “ON CALL"E
VRNT & mn < FE aly
Nd Ret Cow
Beye s

wll
FY) ,AV. AS

B
Wee"CP WEN OTD NONE

AND | tpt WHEN \Sosa IwTto

ONE END OF IT THAT THE
yt GUTY Rinice paca tnabaa To
A TINY INSECT.

AND | PLACEO THE LEAF DOWN ON THE YMA \ SAN)

SIDEWNAL Ic AND WALKED AWAY FROM IT WMaS Sy
2 CAME BACK TOC CHECK ON \ Ws AZ
Ae

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86
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IT WAS THE SAME MY LITTLE TRUST LET ME BE AS SAD AS |\

WAS _ON THE WANTED. | TOOK MY_EYXYES To _THE TRAINYARD
SED AND THE TAVERN AND | SAW THAT | HAD NO
FRIENDS THERE.

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 LE GET ARRESTED WHEN | WENT To LIVE BY
OR PU T AWAY! € LUCK WAS KE AP,
pedits7 _GoOoD Goo! TUMBLED DOWN AN SOME WERE WV
GLA GOT INTo Me! STOCMPH,O VP Lik
LIKe A GIANT AND ROARED
TRIU
\ SNAPPED J-- —
OvT OF iT/

1 ANO SOME SEEMED

MONG THEM, OR TO REGARD M ey Pa ait
SENSED THAT 'MANY oF THEM
HEY, AREN'T You
GOING TO SHARE
= THAT CANDY?

ii TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Ae ne cac ae
\"
a e
PUSHING THROUGH
CROWD.
THE

W, NoT ONTIL
WAS A MAN.

88
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A DREAMZ £
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(4 en he

AND ALL
MY Sov

HANDS... RAIS Kes : :

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DREAMED THIS |
WOULD HAPPEN
To iT!

89
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architect. And | live here, too. That's an
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true, and admirably done. Coffee on the
burner, green paint from a school, a roll of
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UNCLE WILBERFORCE and the kids were “Eat candy and dance like crazy and hug each
hanging around by the pigpen, throwing windfall other,” said Pat.
apples at the huge sleeping sow and having a “Well, I certainly won't hug you,’ said Natalie to
philosophical discussion. Pat:
“I wish there weren't any trouble in the world,” “You'd have to,” said Pat. “And you wouldn't
Natalie stated. mind, either.”
“Yeah,” said Pat. “Okay,” said Natalie. “And nobody would look
“Y’mean, like evil and all that?” said Uncle at crime photographs ‘cause there wouldn't be any.”
Wilberforce. He spat. “Or work,” said Pat. “Nobody would work.”
“Yeah,” said Natalie. “Why has there got to be Uncle Wilberforce groaned and bent over;
such bad things? It seems like the world is all set up but then he straightened up and said, “Sounds like
to run great, but there’s like a bad spirit goin’ around everyone would just hang around and feel good all
that ruins everything.” the livelong day.”
“Yeah,” said Pat. “That’s it,” said Pat. “No uncomfortable chairs,
“Well now you just bind ‘er up lest the curds no mold on the bread, no pencil erasers that leave
run out a minute here,” said Uncle Wilberforce with marks.”
a warm chuckle. “S’posin’ y’could snap your fingers “No loud, unexpected noises,” said Natalie.
an’ make th’ bad go away. Where would you start?” “No boredom.”
“No atom bombs,” said Pat. “And no sleep,’ put in Pat.
“No crazy murderers that rip peoples guts out,’ “And no daydreams,” said Natalie.
said Natalie. “And no distracting thoughts,’ said Pat. “No
“Then what?” said Uncle Wilberforce. sudden deep breaths.”
“No disease, no hunger, no wars,’ said Pat. “No feelings like itchy nose,” said Natalie.
“No animals get killed,” said Natalie. “No body, even,” said Pat, falling down.
“No bad-tasting food, and no electric shocks,” “Just bliss, bliss, bliss,’ mooed Natalie. “Sounds
said Pat. like heaven, all right,” said Uncle Wilberforce with a
“Then what?” said Uncle Wilberforce. chuckle.
The kids had to stop and think for a few “Sounds like the undifferentiated absolute,”
moments. Then Pat said, “No bad dreams. No said Pat.
scary stories.” “Now ain't that what I just said?” asked Uncle
“No rashes. No spankings and no throwing up.” Wilberforce, and they all three laughed and laughed.
“No big dead frogs that stink like rotten pork Suddenly Natalie broke her and Pat’s unspoken
chops,” blurted out Pat. agreement and deliberately hit the old sow right
“And what would folks do in this new and in the face, causing her to squeal and half rise; but
improved world o’ yourn?” asked Uncle Wilberforce instead of taking Natalie to task, Pat exclaimed,
with a nasty rasping cough. “Wow, you really nailed the old bitch!”
“Go to the beach! No drowning or sunburn,’
said Natalie. THE END

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Once upon a time I lived on a farm. I had a little sweetheart, a neighborhood girl who I saw every
day. She was eight, a half year younger than me. We had an understanding. We loved each other as
we loved life: unreservedly, without questioning, full of joy, blissfully, gratefully.

I enjoyed her company more than I have enjoyed Her father was an absolutely horrid man who
anything since. She was another world to me; she nevertheless managed to be widely liked and
and the regular world stood side by side and made respected in our community. He was rich, and his
two worlds. I loved them both. big farm was very beautiful. He raised and sold
thousands of animals for food and other purposes.

147
He never seemed to fulfill his obligations as an It was difficult for me to contend with the fact that
adult in a world where children were living. He my darling was this monster's little girl. The carpet
had his interests, to judge by his bookshelf, and in their house was so thick and dense you couldn't
he had his passions, to judge by his laughter, but he hear yourself walk. I imagined them moving
just never lit up innocently at all. around in it silently at night.

She and I had a great love of the natural world, During the school year I saw less of her. She went
and we had some little pets. We kept them at my to a private religious school. I went to the public
house because her father didn’t approve of keeping schoolhouse down the road, where I hated the
animals for pets. One spring I gave her a rabbit ideas they were teaching me. I didn’t try to not
which she named “Screechy Peachy” because it learn them, but I felt bad about letting myself be
screamed one time when it was stung by a bee. taught such things.
In the afternoons I played with my little sweetheart. She and I saw things, beautiful things and puzzling
We were constantly pestered by her little brother things and things that we dared each other to go
who was very much unlike her and who in fact nearer. It made us like countrymen in a foreign
promised to grow up to be just like her father. land. We saw things in the dark. As far as we could
tell, no one else we knew did.

One day her cousin, newly orphaned, came to live Then he too was killed, only a week after he
with her family. Sympathy and moral support was arrived. An old stepladder he had been standing on
lavished upon him, of course. He was handsome collapsed, and he broke his neck and drowned in
and had beautiful morose city manners, and he too a puddle.
saw those things my little sweetheart and I saw.

149
“That's life,” said my little sweetheart’s father, and I prayed and prayed that I might never have to see
I saw that for him life was like a stubblefield where the world in such hideous terms, and that as I lived
men like himself could put machines to work for and grew older I would see, as I always had, out the
money and amusement and to confer a kind of door I had come in through.
honor, and that for him these treacherous machines
were “life.”

I remember the first thing I learned in school that I Since then, of course, I’ve lost the ability to tell
thought was good for me to know: “The stars shine what’s good for me to learn and what isn’t. I still
during the day though we cannot see them!” From communicate with my little sweetheart, though
that moment on I relaxed my guard and believed I not very often. She’s done all right for herself, I
would learn more good things in school. guess.

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187
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Now THERE CAME A TIME WH EN | FOUND MYSELF IN AN ALLEY
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ALLOW A sortrT
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178
 AMARRIAGE OF ANDO | AGREED, AT THEN THE ANGEL
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NOTHING OF ME. ANGEL THAT WoR- DID NOT AT FIRST HEAR
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WHICH CHANGED
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179
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MOTE BOOK Of HER KEES FoR ITS RHVUSK APD THAT IT WAS

181
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RIR AND WAS RE-MOIsTERED BY OSTR WER . SHE ABRLPTLY ABAN-
Fk GLUIER SAP, THE CHEMICALLY DOPED HER EFFORT TO ADDUCT
BRAISED RECEIVER SEIZED A THE POEM, DER COMAUING HER -
FLAT FROM THE WELKIN SELE FOR HER WEAK WILL
SCAUWED IT OM THE SHRINE AND ASD LACK OF PRTASTIC ABIL-
LOLLAPSED IS SPARKS. A RED ITT. SRE FLENG BOOK AND PEN
Clie Trlr
MOET ONDE Aorien TO THE FLOR , BOMPED OUT THE
BY GUT AND FLOPPED INTO GED,
OF FLAMING BALL BEFRRINGS AR CVRSOING,
CD OP. UPWARD, UPWARD, THE , HAVING FOUR ICUSL'T
PWARD. IT WAS GOD, TRE VOID AND FOUND IT
4 STIPY, INSTINCT, LOVE, DUTY, WAPTING, TRAIMPED ITS FEL BLE
FAITH, ATW. IT WAS SUSAN. EYES COTY THE MOONLIT EXPANSE

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 OF THE HOUSE: CLEARLY THE HIGH- TVRELY JETTISONED ITS MECONIOM
WAY
WER ToD REANEN. : WiTHeooT Eu AND THE LITTLE CREATURE FELT THE
NEED FOR SUSTENANCE. WHAT
WAY BACK WAST ITS Joy, THEN, WHEN IT
BLADE, a CAME UPON THE DESSICATED RE-
NAINS OF A HUGE SERUSALEM
CRICKET)TH
C0GED INT

BEGAN To HARANGUE tT
MERCILESSLY, 1T WHEEZED LIke Bo
A GRAMPUS THROUGH SUPPLY REPLENISHED
ITS DROOLING sPiRA- Bae AND SsTONACH FULL.
CYOLES+, IT SAWED Con- | IT NARDE THE DiFFicow
VULSIVELY AT ITS OWN 7 NG FROM THE
NECK witITH ITs RE— FOUNDATION To THE
NMAINING JUMPLEG, LOWERNOST STRIP OF
IT SAVAGELY GROUN SIDING BEFORE THE Dis-
ITS DASHBOARD INTO INTERESTED EYES CF
THE DIRT. ALL DORING F DOZENS OF SPIDERS
| THis PERFORMANCE _ THAT LINED IS THE GAP
THE SLUG KEPT ITSHEAD © THE WOODEN SIDE oF
COMSERVATIVELT Lous- & THE HOUSE WAS COAT-
ERED AND _ITS EXESIN, | ED VOCTH AN UNEVEN
WAITING FOR THE CRic- | LAWYER OF OsSIFIED
KET TO LET IT PASS. CLESD IN WHICH BIL—
FINALLY AFTER A | LIONS OF DIRT AND
PROLONGUYED DsPLAY CARBON PARTICLES HAD
OF ITS WIDE -CPEN and TRA GREAT
SERIOUSLY DAIMGED
MOUTHPARTS , THE TOR- |
TURED CRICKET STAG
GERED OFF. a
THE LITTLE SLUG TRA- FERENTLY - COLORED
LAYERS OF PAINT, DE -
BRIS WAS EVERYWHERE .
DATION WALL , NG J DECOMPOSING STRANDS
OUT SUCH SLIME AS THE OF SPIDERWESB MoTH
TOXIC SOIL DENANDED, ALONG DUST, GLOBULES OF BU
THE WAY tT SUBMITTED TO THE MAL FAT FROM BAR
FRENZICD BRItF EMBRACE cF SPORES AND POLLEN
AM EARWIG AND STVGBED A FLAKES, SPATTERS o¢
CRRELESS EME OM A RUSTED IUM PHOSPHATE
STRAND OF CHOKE CABLE. PRIED PADDIES
THE FOUNDATION WAS WET
BT HORRIBLYT ROUGH AND PiT-
THE SLU] GRATEFULL'T

TRE SLUG COULDN'T sEeE CUER

TRE BOTION OF THE NEST ONE UP,
 Atv A QUARTER TO THREE THE RADU CLOGGED WiTH SE
ELE USK path
Eatiiow takowy AN ER
SLUG WAS JUST EMERGING FROM H,w VEL
EXTEMDED. IT STRUCK REPEAT-
EDLY AT THE MOTILATED AND
ABLY FILTHY REALM BLUBSBULPRG HEAD CF ITS COMPAP-
THOUSANDS OF SPIDERS HAD lh, WHICH WAS AEARL“Y DEAD:
ConNpucTEeED THER SLALGHTERS, WHAT GRAINS ITHAD WERE ?
WHEN IT CAME UPON THO ADULT LING EXPOSED ON ITS SUCK,
MEMBERS OF ITS OWNSPECIES ISS ITS CONFUSION IT WAS
ENGAGED IN A SAVAGE FIGHT TO TRYING TO FIGHT vWwITH ITS
TRE DEATH. IT WAS AVNERITABLE EXTEPDED PENIS.
SLUGFEST, THEY WERE ATTACHED THE TIN WAYFARER NADE A
TO THE WALL GY THICK RoPEY DIscREET DETOCOR AROOND THE
STRANDS OF MATING -TETHER SCENE, PAUSING ONL To EAT
NAY COUS FROM WHICH THEY SONG GOBBETS THAT BRAD
DANGLED IN GACH OTHER'S SLI- BIH SHED PURING THE COURSE
NMS! EMBRACE. THE LARGER OF OF THE BATTLE. IT CONTINVED
THE TWO HAD SUSTAINED Some OP» ITS WAY UPWARD) GLIDING
SERIOUS WOUNDS BUT WAS Now SERENELY PAST THE HUGE
PLAINLY IN CONTROL. ITS EYES Moos ut BULK OF AN EST1—
WERE COMPLETELY IN ANDITS VATING SNAIL,
 SEER

WAS

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| DAWPD FILLED THE ok BEYOND
THE FAR HILLS, THE LITTLE
WAYFARER PULLED ITSELEUP
OVER THE EDGE OF SUSAN'S
SECOND -sToRY BEDROOM
UNNDOW, WARM AIR FOURED
FROM TRE ROOM. THE SLUG
PEERED INTO THE CHAMBER
AND BEHELD, AS BEST IT
SUSAN LAI NG SOUND
Rovedle in BED.
FoR HEAVEN'S
HOUGHT THE SLUG.
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SUPDENLX\ DISGORGED ITS
COMPULSION AND THE SLUG,
Nov Ont STEP NEARER.
TO ESLIGHUTENMENT WENT
SEE TO FIND SOMETHING
Rene TO DO WITH ee
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DREAM ACR TE nh

BEPEAalH THEIR LIDS LIKE

CAPTING GOPHERS. IN HER
PREANM SHE WAS BEING KEPT AWAY FROM & CONAFORTABLE -LOOK-
ING DAIS BY THE HIDECUSLY DISTORTED GIANT POISONED HEAD
CF HER BEST FRIEPD LUCY, SUSAN WAS TOO EXHAUSTED To
DODGE ARROUND THE HONGTRING MONSTROSIT'r AND FELT THAT
TREIR MOVEMENTS WERE somenov LINKED. SHE SUSPECTED)
THE PERDOLUM PRINCIPLE. THE FLOOR WAS CONERED peed ©
COLNS, PENNIES, NICKELS, DIMES AND QUARTERS WER
SCATTERED AU CVER. THEY DRIPPED F ME CEILING.
CHANGE WAS IN THE AIR.
SUSAN HELD BACK A BEAT AND FELT A BREAKIN THE EPI-
SOVEX THEN SHE CHARGED, A RED TOY HORSE IN HER HAND,
GETTING PAST “LUCY, BUT NOT REALLY STOPPING, CONTIN,
VING PAST THE DAIS , BREATHLESS BUT LAUGTIING, AND INTO
A STARK WARM GALLERY THAT SHE RECOGNISED WITH A
BORTT OF JOY AS BELONGING TO HER CTHER , OLDER, HOME
SHE BEGAN TO TOUR HAPPILY. THE HOME LED HER @QolIEtly
GPRARD. SHE WAS RISING FROM THE DARKGALLERY ON ©
NNS

THE EDGE CF THE CHASM WHERE SHE COOLD HEAR NERY FAUT
SCREAMS CF TERROR. CHE REDISCOVERED THE AMUSEMEAT
ROOMS, RIGHT OUT OF AM CLD NAGAZING AS USVAL LIITH
THEIR CVERSIZED LAMPS AND DANIOH GASY CHAIRS FROM
THE EARLY DAYS CE HI-Fi. WHAT LISTENING SHE MUST
KANE HAD THERE CR WOULD, CR WOULD NOT. INSTINCT
DID NOT LEAD HER WRONG SHE CAME UPON THE LONG
THOUGHT LOST CONTROL Room , PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIFOL
AS A SOLARIOM BUT ODDLY DIFFERENT THAN SHE REMEM-
BERED IT To BE. THE Rovs OF TURNTABLES WAS THERE,
Fit TO PLAN THE CHoICEsT RECORDS (Nh THE HOUSE coL-
LECTION , BOT INSTERD OF THE LISTERING LOUNGE THE
ROOM LOOKED OVT INTC THE MIDDLE OCF RER BEloucD
FAMILIAR OLD QUARRY, REALLY THE SttOS PIECE OF THE
ESTATE AND THE DEAREST GEM OF HER HEART..-OR AT

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CHANREL BECKONED. SHE CROUCHED Louw AND CREPT
THROUGH. THE PASSAGEWAY WAS SHAPED LIKE A FOINTED ARCH
RAND sO NARROW HER SHOULDERS RUBBED THE SIDES. IT
WAS INHOSPITABLE BUT PROEFCUNDL'T INVITING, AND RINGING
LOLVOLYT 1S HER MEMORY. IT WAS UNMISTAKYBLE. NIVID
RECOLLECTIONS OF ALL TRE TIMES SRE HAD BEEN THERE
BEFORE CAME TO THE FOREFRONT. CE HER MIND. SHE RE-
MEMBERED ALL THE FORMS THE PLACE HAD TAKER. SHE
WOULD BOT LET HERSELF THINK ABOUT © ACTUAL BLESS!
CF TRE EVENT, ne Ly
SHE WAS SHAKING WITH APPREHENSION. ATTHIS POINT,
TRE ONLY FRUSTRATION LAY ID WAKING. THERE WERE
LEANESS OY THE FLOOR CF THE PASSAGE, THE TELL-TALE
RROMA OF RUSSIAN INCENSE, THE SILENCE OF GILT Woop
INS DIM LIGHT, THE CONVERGENCE OF EVERY LOST OPPORTU
ITY ANO THE GLORY OF GRACE. SUSAN STEPPED IN A
WALKING CONA OF REVERENCE ISTO TRE CHAMBER AND
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Dear Jim, graphic tic that makes me draw benevolent or I don’t know if you’re gonna know the
mysterious forces as a sort of transparent cat answer to this: it’s in regards to Johnny Eck.
1 had a most horrific nightmare last night
with a long hollow tongue. I heard a horrible rumor about his death. I
that I thought I would pass on to you: had always known that he lived in
Someone placed a book in my hands. The Eli Bishop, NYC NY Philadelphia, I'd always wanted to go knock
cover photograph showed a rather ordinary,
Those “spindle objects” are disembodied, on his door and make him talk to me until
if slightly intense-looking 30-ish man, the wee hours cuz Jesus, talk about having
conditioned souls, Eli, and cats like yours are
shoulders on up. He looked like an English
murder on ’em. an amazing life. Talk about having skin like
middle-management business man—sandy
that. (Like What? —J.W.) I heard some thug
hair, decent features, slightly thin in the broke into his apt, stole everything, basically
Would you please send me your autograph?
face. tortured Johnny and as a result the next day
This ghastly volume then proceeded, Would it be possible to draw me one of your
characters? I have long been an admirer of yours. Mr. Eck killed himself.
page by page, to photographically document
his self-mutilation. Each left-hand page lam retired and on a limited income and this Zak Sally, Oakland CA
showed the actual process, and each facing would mean so much to me. If you are as nice as
page showed the “new” look after the you seem I know I shall receive it. The feel of a carpet tack jabbed deeply
operations had healed. He started by Emil Dern, Syracuse NY into my heel; the smell of snow thawing ina
chemically removing all his hair—face and handknit woolen mitten (and the taste of
scalp. Then he began in earnest. As I flipped I feel obliged to tell you whose DNA this is. furry meltwater); raving, mad Uncle Bill;
through the pages I observed, in this order: There was a frog in the department who was incense, Latin, and nuns, nuns, nuns.
. The scarification of his eyeballs. very ill (this is true). [I don’t doubt it. —J.W.] Patrick Collins, Carpinteria CA
. The cutting-off of his ears. They tried to save it with antibiotics and other
. The cutting-off of his nose. procedures which I will not describe. (But Beveled, opulence, wizened, creamy,
. The cutting-off of his lips. ultimately) we anesthetized it, pithed it and then jewel, kit, duderanch, phlegm, icicle,
. The extension of his mouth to his ears. I relieved it of its spleen and liver. This is why
. The pulling-out of this teeth with pliers. verbena.
this DNA I've sent you is filthy... Chill the
. The cutting-out of his tongue. ethanol in the freezer... add the NaOAc and then MaryAnne Loverme, Brooklyn NY
. The sewing-shut of his remaining ear- the EtOH to one of the DNA tubes, cap it and
cavities. mix by inverting the tube a bunch of times. At the risk of compromising my very last
. The sewing-shut of his nose. shred of dignity, 1 must tell you that
. The sewing-shut of his mouth. Susan Bassham, Portland OR
interview with you (The Comics Journal
. The further removal of all exterior flesh #164) was so deeply moving, so intelligent
and cartilage of his nose. Glad to see the fork back in the road! JIM 2.1
and tender and funny I burst into tears half
. The gouging-out of his eyes. mighty big on the delicious—keep ’em comin’ way through it.
. The sewing-shut of his eyelids. hot and distinguished.
. The removal of his arms and shoulders. Karen Brown, Sausalito CA
Mark Janicko, Pittsburgh PA
(He must have needed assistance for these Me too! Ms. Brown is the creator of City of
last two) The MANHOG story (in JIM 2.1) did not Love, the syndicated treat for wide-open
The back-cover photograph featured this benefit from the addition of text. To me, part of readers.
man having completed his project. It is the the thing that makes the Frank stories work so
single most horrifying image I have ever well is the sort of silent foreign film feel they Your new issue has sparked me to finally
seen in my life. It jolted me awake with generate... I know that it’s only my opinion, but send off a note to you. I’ve been following
overpowering revulsion. I can’t get this if it was me doing it, I'd bag the words. your work since Jim 1 and I became a bigger
series of pictures out of my mind! fan each time you put something out. I
Seth Deitch, Cambridge PA certainly am not going to describe why I like
Paul Woodring, Los Osos CA
I tend to agree with you, Dr. Fis — I mean, your work so much. I’m very drawn to the
We love Frank and walk around the Seth. The reason those words were there in the first mysterious, slightly frightening world you've
apartment with our front teeth protruding in place is that I originally drew the story for a created. I think your sense of design is
his honor. magazine, with differently proportioned pages, so it entirely original and a joy to look at. I must
was short. Ijust put the words in to fill up the say tho —I could barely look at that
Brian & Elizabeth Carroll, empty space. Rex Edhlund called the Frank stories sequence where the man-hog is cutting the
Little Falls NJ “illiterature,” and I hate to have that word not skin off his leg.
apply.
I showed Frank to an artist friend of Seth, Toronto Canada
mine and he was so inspired that he began I particularly enjoyed the text that Everyone knows that Seth’s Palookaville is
work on his own minicomic, The Adventures accompanied the MANHOG story. one ofthe great achievements of the profession,
of Silt. so I won't belabor the point. But girls, how do
Chris Hope, Richmond VA
Arik Oversmith, Lauderdale MN you like my new trophy letter?
Wow! What an experience I’ve just had reading
Only your mother was happier to see the Asa friend once said: “My spiritual well
the MANHOG story in JIM 2.1! First I read the
first issue of JIM Vol 2 hit the stands! 1 is empty; let’s go get drunk.”
pictures and ignored the words. Then I read it
howled! I drooled! I did the tail-wagging over reading the words and trying to ignore the Eric Schaller, Madison WI
dance my dog taught me! pictures. The cumulative effect was that feeling
Brett Lisk, Toronto Canada of enigmatic wonder and strangeness that is so
familiar after I read The Book ofJim whenever |
Please tell me a bit about the angels or do my laundry.
- whatever those spindle objects that turn up Derek Mutch, San Francisco
so often are. Particularly I had trouble
tracing the path of the little knobbly thing in
Frank in the River. Unparticularly 1wonder We dislike the idea of running words under
how that shape came about. I ask because
the Frank story. We dislike it very much. 5736 17th Ave NE
I've been afflicted for years by a sort of Sam & Chuck Wagner, Seattle Seattle WA 98105

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O ne blisteringly hot summer day when I was a

small child I awoke much later than usual; in the
afternoon, in fact. I looked all over for my parents but I
the car. I had to hold on as tightly as I could to keep from
being thrown offas we hit bumps and tore around corners.
As we got near my grandmother’s house I saw my
couldn't find them anywhere. Then I saw them coming up mother climb into the back seat and disappear; then the
the street, staggering as if loaded down with rocks as they trunk popped open and there she was, laughing, with a
ascended our steep hill. large knife in her hand. “Now!” yelled my father. She cut
From their wilted postures and logy movement I the rope with a single swipe of the knife. The car roared
thought they must be suffused in grief and I began to think off, my parents honking and waving, as the bedsprings
of comforting words to say to them. However, when they slid up onto the sidewalk and smacked into the giant
got closer, I could see that they were blissful. My father eucalyptus tree in front of my grandmother’s house.
said, “We're going to take you to your grandmother's I went inside. Nobody was home. I explored the
house and then your mom and I are going to the beach place at will, even prying into places where I knew I was
to get drunk.’ not allowed. When I heard the front door open I was in
They seemed quite well-oiled already. My father’s her bedroom, digging through a box of photographs of
black hair hung in loose fingers over his shining brow and mutilated animals among which I found a photo of myself
my mother moved as if she were swaddled in warm, wet, holding two dead possums by their tails. In pencil across
greasy rags. Their eyes were shut and their mouths hung the back someone had written “The future??”
open. In my father’s hand was a dead baby chick. I hastily put the box back and jumped out the
They tied an old rusted set of bedsprings to the rear window into the side yard where I hid in the tall grass. I
bumper of the car and told me to climb on. Of course I heard voices; my grandmother and my cousin. I relaxed,
was delighted at the prospect of such a ride. I wished that believing that I was better company than my cousin
they would be drunk all the time. “Ready?” called my and assuming that my grandmother would therefore be
father from the driver's seat. “Ready!” I shouted. glad to see me. I wondered if she would notice that the
He drove very fast, like a man fleeing a catastrophe. photographs had been fiddled with.
The bedsprings and I flew and bounced violently behind I sneaked out of the yard, cut through a neighbor’s

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lot to the sidewalk and pretended to be just arriving at “Why don’t you go now?” said my grandmother.
her door. My grandmother looked old, tough, tired and I went down to the living room and was surprised to
displeased to see me. “Come in,” she said grimly. “You've find a crowd of strangers. In the center of the group was
come at an awkward time.’ She led me to the kitchen a girl about my age sitting in a chair. She was very wispy
where my cousin was kneeling on the floor. He had a and demure. People were attending her. I went over too,
mink on its back and he was cutting it up with a pair of and I heard her tell the crowd, “I like to be sad, it makes
tin snips. The animal was still alive and it rolled its eyes me feel deep.’
beseechingly. I noticed that it had a human mouth. I said, “I like to be sad too!” Heads turned; I saw the
“Kill it,” said my grandmother. He roared “NO!” ina expression of distrust and distaste on their faces. I knew
long wounded howl. “Kill it,” she said again. He sullenly that expression well; it meant to me that the person who
cut off its head. The mink’s human lips mouthed a prayer bore it was stupid. Now, though, [had said the right thing.
as it died. For a long time after that nobody moved or I felt good; I knew that what they found so attractive in
said anything. Then I asked my cousin, “Do you want to this winsome girl was what they found so awful in me.
go outside and play?” There was no purpose in trying to bring them around;
“He can't,’ said my grandmother quickly. “He has to though I knew Icould make them worship me Ipreferred
finish a few projects left undone by your grandfather.’ their uneasy dislike. That is why I never tried to make
“They both looked at me and Ifelt extremely uneasy. myself agreeable.
I said, “But grandfather was an inventor! How can he The girl watched me come forward. She regarded me
(meaning my cousin) continue his work?” with stoney-eyed contempt. “She’s stupid too,” I thought.
My grandmother broke into a terrifying smile. “Your “Only Iam smart.’ When I was near her I said, “Sadness is
grandfather was a walking corpse,” she said. She pointed good, but what I really love is death.’ She nodded slowly.
at my cousin, who now hada dapper little moustache. “He “I mean the kind of death where one comes alive in the
is the one who will set everything aright. He is the one middle of it,” I said.
who will resolve the unfinished business of humanity.” “I don't know about that,” she said, “I don’t really
My cousin smirked and gave his tin snips a salutory clip. believe in death.” “Oh, it’s real,” I said. “It comes in the

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afternoon, like a nap. When one dies the whole world “What you said was true,” she said. “I found out
relaxes. And when one comes alive again the whole right after you left, when an uncle murdered me.” “In
world rejoices.” “And then what?” she asked. the biblical sense?” I asked. “No,” she said with a smile,
I said, “And then comes the brief and tinal death, “thank God.” It was a wonderful moment. Her skin
and the world is stunned. No one can comprehend it. opened and her skeleton tumbled out. It lay on the grass,
The sun shines like a chunk of pastrami, left unattended pink, shiny and gasping. I picked it up and slid it into the
in a hot skillet. The waters swarm with insanity in the pond. The gasping stopped; a relaxed smile played across
form of protozoa. The edges of the model curl and go flat the skull. Her skin had already turned to black foam. I’d
and crumble away. All the depth of mankind becomes lost the girl. Icouldn't even see her in the pond any more.
a poor idea, badly expressed, and one sees that nothing I left the house and walked home.
could ever come of it.’ When I got there the car was back in the driveway
That sums it up nicely, I thought. I waited to see and the house was full of children I didn’t know. “Where’s
how the girl would respond. To my disappointment my mother?” I asked them one after another. The only
she sneered at me. “You don’t impress me,’ she said, “I answer I got was, “Go away!” I soon found that despite
used to be just like you, but I was a child then. I haven't the constant unfriendly rebuffs I enjoyed walking among
had thoughts like yours since I was eight.’ The attending strangers and asking what was going on. It made me feel
crowd chuckled nastily. “Fine, I’ll go,” I said. like a king, or a scientist.
Fuming mad, I strode away from that chamber, out Finally someone said, “Go tell Mrs. Woodring
of the house and into the garden. “This is where I'd rather there's a weird kid who’s come here and he’s ruining the
be anyway,” I thought. To my extreme delight there was party.’ A child ran off to do that. I ran after the child.
a small pond in the garden, and it was full of croaking “Quit following me!” said the child. “Shut up!” I said.
frogs. I sat down on the leaves and watched them. After a “Shut up and take me to Mrs. Woodring!”
while I heard footsteps approaching. I knew who it was; At the end of a hallway which tilted upward was a
it was that girl. She sat down on the bench and stared at tall, narrow door. My guide hesitated, then knocked. The
me intently. voice of my mother called out, “Come in!” We went in.

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She was sitting on a pile of dirt that had been covered second,’ I said. “Get back in there now!” she screamed. I
with an ermine cloak. did and she shut the lid. I fell asleep.
“Nice accommodations, Mrs. Woodring,” said my When I awoke I opened the lid. I saw the blue sky. A
guide. My mom laughed. “Royalty,” she said. “Generous delicious aroma was in the air. I sat up in the box and saw
but devoid of common sense.” I was in a park. All the kids I'd seen earlier were playing
“This kid,” said my guide, “doesn’t seem to belong there. There was an earthly perfection to their rompage.
here. He won't play, he just wanders around asking for All were clean and lovingly dressed; all were running and
his mother.’ “I’m his mother,” she said in a voice that was skipping and otherwise playing with great gusto. They
so sad I felt my eyes water in pity. “Oh,” said my guide. looked like the final flowering of humanity.
My mother told me to take a nap. She indicated an My mother looked like a goddess. She was dressed
ornate wooden box the size of a child’s coffin. I climbed in white, her face and figure looked young and healthy,
in and arranged my hands on my chest. It occurred to me she wore a crown of flowers. She noticed me sitting up
that I ought to have a lily; that would be a good joke. I in my box and whistled for attention. When all eyes
climbed out to get one. “Oh, where are you going now?” were upon her she pointed at me and said, “He is risen!”
asked my mom in exasperation. “To get something,” I Everyone, including me, laughed.
said. “No,” she said, “get back in there.” “It'll just take a

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