Saturday, December 5, 2009

He was sure to lose through his arrest and while the train rolled on toward Buffalo I talked with the man in the seat behind me. He had an empty pipe. I filled it for him with my precious tobacco--enough in a single.

Is true. " A moan broke from the row of recruits and they shook as though a chill wind had passed over them. The smile vanished. "We will run to breakfast now as soon as I have some volunteers for an easy assignment. Can any of you drive a helicar?" Two recruits hopefully raised their hands and he beckoned them forward. "All right both of you mops and buckets behind that.
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Printings since then - all but one of them in paperback - but that didn't matter. All he really had to work with were those two dates 1980 and 1983 . . . and his own hopeful belief that aside from agents and publishing-company lawyers no one paid much attention to those lines of fine print on the copyright page. Hoping that this would prove true to John Shooter hoping that Shooter would simply assume - as most general readers did - that a story he had read for the first time in a collection had no prior existence Mort approached the man and finally stood before him on the edge of the road. 10 'I guess you must have had a chance to read my story by now ' Shooter said. He spoke as casually as a man commenting on the weather. 'I did. ' Shooter nodded gravely. 'I imagine it rang a bell didn't it?' 'It certainly did ' Mort.
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