lockedin an adolescent grapple with Jack Wheeldon (who is all the things in this life that you despis “He’s not in there. 733 I said, yeah, I know the dead guy. The charge builds and builds, surging down the line seeking a focus.
One moment I was snug in the privacy of my own head, and the next I was over there insomeone else’ s landscape. I guess the tone of concern in my voicestopped him. And that particular history was all about him, so he laid it onme over and over, till I knew it by heart. )“ Soft Monkey” originally appeared in THE BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME FICTION[edited by Edward Gorman]; copyright © 1987 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
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