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T 72. 594. 540. 594. 2 L 1 H N 1 F 1.73 (October 1989) 72. 583. P 0.86 (Volume I, Issue 2) 468. 583. P 72. 578. 540. 578. 2 L N 2.05 (Circulation: 278) 273. 583. P 2 F (Contents) 271.5 526. T 3 F (Etc... ) 72. 485. T 4 F ( ) 106.22 485. T (..................................................................\ ....................................................) 112. 485. T ( ) 526. 485. T 3 F ( 2) 529.5 485. T 5 F (Jim McCabe) 468.85 469. T 3 F (Shadow Box) 72. 440. T 72. 437.28 146.3 438.61 R V ( ) 146.3 440. T 4 F (..................................................................\ ........................................) 154. 440. T ( ) 526. 440. T 3 F ( 3) 529.5 440. T 5 F (Lois Buwalda) 462.59 424. T 3 F (Haute Cuisine) 72. 395. T 72. 392.28 157.18 393.61 R V ( ) 157.18 395. T 4 F (..................................................................\ .....................................) 164.5 395. T ( ) 526. 395. T 3 F ( 7) 529.5 395. T 5 F (Phillip Nolte) 468.04 379. T 3 F (Solitaire) 72. 350. T 72. 347.28 122.55 348.61 R V ( ) 122.55 350. T 4 F (.................................................................\ .............................................) 133. 350. T ( ) 519. 350. T 3 F ( 13) 522.5 350. T 5 F (Garry Frank) 468.07 334. T 3 F (Picture Perfect) 72. 305. T 72. 302.28 161.78 303.61 R V ( \050part 2 of 2\051 ) 161.78 305. T 4 F (.................................................................\ .............) 245. 305. T ( ) 519. 305. T 3 F ( 18) 522.5 305. T 5 F (Gene Smith) 475.07 289. T 3 F (A) 191.04 178. T 6 F (THENE) 201.15 178. T 7 F (, Copyright \251 1989 By Jim McCabe.) 243.16 178. T (This magazine may be archived and reproduced without charge under \ the condition that it ) 90.21 164. T (is left in its entirety. The individual works within are the sole \ property of their respective ) 91.19 150. T (author\050s\051, and no further use of these works is permitted \ without their explicit consent. ) 98.2 136. 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T (Amateur Creative Writing) 230.8 621. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "2" 2 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 2) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F (This one makes Athene monthly!) 90. 639. T 2.92 (After the first issue, I was more than a) 90. 625. P 2.94 (little worried about finding enough material) 72. 611. P 1.37 (to fill still another one. But, just as it usual-) 72. 597. P 3.67 (ly happens, things seemed to have worked) 72. 583. P 5.75 (out on their own. Not only was there) 72. 569. P 6.88 (enough material for another issue, there) 72. 555. P (was enough to make for a really ) 72. 541. T 8 F (good) 228.96 541. T 7 F ( issue.) 252.96 541. T 10.01 (The past couple weeks have also) 90. 527. P 2.72 (brought a new surprise -- ) 72. 513. P 6 F 2.72 (Quanta) 209.23 513. P 7 F 2.72 (. Quanta) 247.9 513. P 1.91 (is a new electronic magazine that deals with) 72. 499. P 0.88 (topics in the world of science fiction and fan-) 72. 485. P 1.1 (tasy. The magazine will include short fiction) 72. 471. P 2.59 (as well as some reviews and articles. Like) 72. 457. P 2.45 (Athene, Quanta is available in PostScript as) 72. 443. P 1.34 (well as normal straight text. For more infor-) 72. 429. P (mation, contact:) 72. 415. T (Daniel K. Appelquist) 90. 387. T 9 F (da1n+@andrew.cmu.edu) 90. 374. T 7 F 3.72 (Quanta is an entirely new magazine and I) 72. 345. P 3.52 (wish its publishers nothing but the best of) 72. 331. P (luck. The competition can only help.) 315. 639. T 4.19 (Since the first issue I have also made) 333. 625. P 4.2 (available a new index of Athene back is-) 315. 611. P 3.25 (sues. The index lists the contents of each) 315. 597. P 2.62 (issue, including the title and author of each) 315. 583. P 1.82 (work. Back issues and the index can be or-) 315. 569. P 12.84 (dered by sending mail to me at) 315. 555. P 9 F 1.8 (MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET) 315. 541. P 7 F 1.8 (. \050Note to Bitnet) 451.8 541. P 3.24 (users: please do not send interactive mes-) 315. 526. P 6.01 (sages, instead use NOTE or some other) 315. 512. P (mail package.\051) 315. 498. T 4.57 (I am also happy to comment that the) 333. 484. P 3.06 (readership has grown by thirty five percent) 315. 470. P 4.84 (\050about seventy new subscribers\051, including) 315. 456. P (a couple local redistribution sites.) 315. 442. T 3. (All things considered, it\325s been a pretty) 333. 428. P 2.34 (good month for Athene. Let\325s hope it con-) 315. 414. P (tinues to move in the same direction,) 315. 400. T 5 F (Jim) 519.78 357. T 72. 666. 540. 666. 2 L 1 H N 10 F (Etc...) 72. 710. T 5 F (By Jim McCabe) 72. 694. T 9 F (MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET) 72. 680. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "3" 3 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 3) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 5.43 (She dipped the brush into the jar of) 90. 621. P 5.1 (green paint, then drew it deftly across a) 72. 607. P 1.31 (scrap piece of paper. The color was the per-) 72. 593. P 1.82 (fect shade, but the paint was still a little too) 72. 579. P 1.96 (thick. Well, unlike yesterday, she had plen-) 72. 565. P 1.75 (ty of paint thinner on hand. As she reached) 72. 551. P 3.21 (up to the top shelf, she paused, looking at) 72. 537. P (the picture on the easel in front of her.) 72. 523. T 3.23 (It was a woodland scene, only partially) 90. 509. P 1.22 (finished. When done, there would be a spar-) 72. 495. P 3. (kling brook, lush grass, and towering trees.) 72. 481. P 3.71 (It reminded her a lot of the vacation spot) 72. 467. P 2.39 (where she went every year with her parents) 72. 453. P 1.96 (until her mother died. In fact, she suddenly) 72. 439. P 6.87 (realized, she probably was painting that) 72. 425. P (spot. Her mother would have liked it.) 72. 411. T 3.14 (Her mother never tried painting, Megan) 90. 397. P 5. (knew, but she had loved to make pencil) 72. 383. P 2.34 (drawings of the places they visited. Megan) 72. 369. P 4.72 (still had one, tucked away in the bottom) 72. 355. P 1.89 (drawer of her desk where all her special pa-) 72. 341. P 3.1 (pers resided. Her father had destroyed the) 72. 327. P 3.67 (rest when her mother died. He hated her) 72. 313. P 5.45 (drawings--they were a waste of time, he) 72. 299. P (said.) 72. 285. T 7.01 (Megan frowned at the thought, then) 90. 271. P 1.96 (shook her head. Enough of memories. She) 72. 257. P 2.28 (resolutely grabbed the paint thinner from its) 72. 243. P 2.74 (place on the top shelf and added a little to) 72. 229. P 2.42 (the paint. Once again she swirled some on) 72. 215. P 1.34 (the paper and held it up to the light. Perfec-) 72. 201. P 1.5 (tion! Or at least as close to perfection as an) 72. 187. P (amateur could come.) 72. 173. T 5.01 (Megan closed her eyes, imagining the) 90. 159. P 3.08 (picture as she wanted it to be. She imag-) 72. 145. P 4.42 (ined the grass swaying in the breeze. It) 72. 131. P 1.67 (should be long and untrampled, like the area) 72. 117. P 3.29 (where her mother always spread the picnic) 72. 103. P (blanket. Most of all, it should look alive.) 72. 89. T 5.79 (She opened her eyes again, and sur-) 90. 75. P 2.92 (veyed her paints. Maybe a touch of silver) 315. 621. P 5.06 (would help suggest the movement of the) 315. 607. P 2.71 (grass in the breeze, she mused. She paint-) 315. 593. P 3.09 (ed a few strokes of the green grass, added) 315. 579. P 2.24 (the silver highlight, then leaned back to cri-) 315. 565. P 3.92 (tique the result. She sighed. Maybe Dr.) 315. 551. P (Burnstrom was right.) 315. 537. T 3.03 ("Megan," he had said at one of her fa-) 333. 523. P 3.3 (ther\325s parties, "you\325ve got talent. But you) 315. 509. P 1.97 (still don\325t know how to use it properly." He) 315. 495. P 3.96 (pulled out a business card and a pen and) 315. 481. P 6.63 (scribbled something on it. "Here\325s the) 315. 467. P 3.63 (name of an excellent art professor at your) 315. 453. P 2.26 (college. If you really want to learn how to) 315. 439. P 4.35 (paint, you should take a class with him.") 315. 425. P 3.84 (Handing the card to Megan, he continued,) 315. 411. P 2.35 ("He\325ll be able to smooth out your problems) 315. 397. P (with technique.") 315. 383. T 3.67 (She had accepted the card at the time,) 333. 369. P 7.68 (Megan remembered, but she had never) 315. 355. P 2.55 (looked up the professor. After all, she had) 315. 341. P 3.06 (enough pre-law classes to take without try-) 315. 327. P 3.45 (ing to fit an art class in somewhere. Be-) 315. 313. P 3.72 (sides, dad was paying for the classes, and) 315. 299. P 1.85 (he would have hit the roof at the thought of) 315. 285. P 3.37 (his daughter "dabbling in paints." But now) 315. 271. P 3.21 (that she had a scholarship for her last two) 315. 257. P 2.06 (years, maybe she could take what ) 315. 243. P 8 F 2.06 (she) 491.62 243. P 7 F 2.06 ( want-) 507.62 243. P (ed to take ...) 315. 229. T 8.06 (Megan\325s eyes lit up briefly at the) 333. 215. P 3.19 (thought, then dimmed again. No, dad still) 315. 201. P 2.29 (wouldn\325t approve. Come to think of it, her) 315. 187. P 4.54 (friends wouldn\325t understand, either. They) 315. 173. P 5.43 (had their eyes set on exciting trials and) 315. 159. P 3.74 (prestigious positions. They were practical,) 315. 145. P (not dreamers like her.) 315. 131. T 3.14 (Megan sighed, then began putting away) 333. 117. P 3.19 (her paints. The painting just wasn\325t going) 315. 103. P 2.04 (well today. Better to put it off until tomor-) 315. 89. P 3.81 (row. Besides, Michele was going to pick) 315. 75. P 72. 648. 540. 648. 2 L 1 H N 10 F (Shadow Box) 72. 710. T 72. 707.87 144.74 708.63 R V 5 F (By Lois Buwalda) 72. 694. T 9 F (LOIS@UCF1VM.BITNET) 72. 680. T 7 F (Copyright \251 1989 Lois Buwalda) 72. 665. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "4" 4 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 4) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 1.42 (her up in another hour. Today was Freddy\325s) 72. 711. P 2. (birthday, so they were all going out to cele-) 72. 697. P 2.67 (brate. Not that she was terribly thrilled by) 72. 683. P 3.3 (the idea, or anything. Freddy was a good) 72. 669. P 3.62 (friend, and she loved Italian food, but she) 72. 655. P 2.74 (just wasn\325t in the mood to put up with the) 72. 641. P (group.) 72. 627. T 2.18 (Megan picked up the picture and carried) 90. 613. P 3. (it back to her bedroom. Though she liked) 72. 599. P 2.86 (painting in front of the big picture window) 72. 585. P 4.51 (with the fall breezes blowing through her) 72. 571. P 2.91 (hair, Michele would be sure to comment if) 72. 557. P 3.47 (she saw it. Better to tuck it away in her) 72. 543. P (room, and never let anyone back there.) 72. 529. T 2.62 (It was amazing how many people asked) 90. 515. P 7.93 (to see "the ) 72. 501. P 8 F 7.93 (whole) 149. 501. P 7 F 7.93 ( apartment," as they) 177.67 501. P 4.23 (phrased it, but Megan always managed to) 72. 487. P 4.67 (get out of it by pleading a messy room.) 72. 473. P 0.96 (Only Dr. Burnstrom, an old childhood friend) 72. 459. P 2.38 (of her mother\325s, knew that she still painted.) 72. 445. P (And she intended to keep it that way.) 72. 431. T 3.01 (The doorbell rang. Megan dropped her) 90. 403. P 1.71 (brush on the counter and ran to get the door) 72. 389. P 3.53 (in her bare feet. "Hi, Michele!" she said.) 72. 375. P 6.08 ("Come on in." She stepped back to let) 72. 361. P 2.93 (Michele pass. "I\325m almost ready. Just let) 72. 347. P (me grab my shoes and we\325ll be off.") 72. 333. T 3.45 ("Sure thing," Megan heard Michele say) 90. 319. P 5.84 (as she hurried back to her room. She) 72. 305. P 4.56 (grabbed the nearest pair of shoes, shoved) 72. 291. P 4.5 (her feet into them, picked up a purse \050it) 72. 277. P 3.29 (didn\325t match, but she didn\325t feel like stop-) 72. 263. P 2.92 (ping to change it\051, then rushed back to the) 72. 249. P 2.67 (living room. Michele was staring at a pic-) 72. 235. P (ture on the wall.) 72. 221. T 0.99 ("Hey, I kind of like this picture," Michele) 90. 207. P 2.18 (exclaimed. "Who\325s it by?" She reached out) 72. 193. P 2.3 (to touch it. Megan winced. Why does ev-) 72. 179. P (eryone always have to touch everything?) 72. 165. T 3.54 ("Dali," Megan replied. "Salvador Dali.) 90. 151. P 1.81 (He just died a few months ago." She looked) 72. 137. P 2.54 (up at the picture. It was one of her favor-) 72. 123. P 3.26 (ites, given to her by her mother after they) 72. 109. P 2.5 (had visited the Dali museum in St. Peters-) 72. 95. P (burg.) 72. 81. T 2.18 ("Ahh, that\325s too bad," Michele said. To) 333. 711. P 3.48 (Megan she sounded insincere. But on the) 315. 697. P 2.01 (other hand, Michele was no Dali scholar, so) 315. 683. P 2.4 (Megan was willing to overlook it. "What\325s) 315. 669. P 1.91 (it a picture of, anyway?" Michele continued.) 315. 655. P ("It\325s, err, hard to tell.") 315. 641. T 3.56 (Megan laughed. "Yeah, Dali definitely) 333. 627. P 7.76 (has some strange stuff." She wondered) 315. 613. P 1. (what Dali would think of one of ) 315. 599. P 8 F 1. (her) 479.01 599. P 7 F 1. ( pictures,) 495. 599. P 7.45 (barely stifling a giggle at the thought.) 315. 585. P 4.43 ("Anyway, the picture is called \325Velazquez) 315. 571. P 7.61 (Painting the Infanta Margarita with the) 315. 557. P 5.56 (Lights and Shadows of his Own Glory.\325) 315. 543. P 2.25 (What\325s interesting about it is that, as the ti-) 315. 529. P 2.56 (tle suggests, it actually has another painting) 315. 515. P 1.68 (hidden within it." She pointed to the picture,) 315. 501. P 1.64 (tracing lines in the air in front of it with her) 315. 487. P 2.44 (finger as she talked. "See, here\325s the girl\325s) 315. 473. P 2.15 (head, and the red squiggles down here form) 315. 459. P 2.41 (the trim on her gown. It billows out down) 315. 445. P 2.52 (around the bottom." Megan pulled her arms) 315. 431. P 2.95 (down from the picture and gestured around) 315. 417. P 4.58 (her legs in a rough approximation of the) 315. 403. P (shape of the gown.) 315. 389. T 3.42 (Michele nodded. "Sure, I see it now,") 333. 375. P 2.68 (she said, looking at her watch. "That\325s in-) 315. 361. P (teresting.") 315. 347. T 6.84 (Megan hardly noticed the movement.) 333. 333. P 3.58 ("Yes. Dali really liked Velazquez\325s work,) 315. 319. P 1.71 (so he included his painting in here as a trib-) 315. 305. P 1.14 (ute to him." She paused. "Some day I\325m go-) 315. 291. P 2.87 (ing to frame a copy of Velazquez\325s picture) 315. 277. P 3.05 (and hang it up here next to this one." She) 315. 263. P 2.17 (turned to face Michele, and grinned. "Then) 315. 249. P 2.01 (you won\325t have any problems seeing the In-) 315. 235. P (fanta in it.") 315. 221. T 2.6 (Michele laughed politely, then looked at) 333. 207. P 3.59 (her watch again. "Great," she said. "We) 315. 193. P (really should be going, though.") 315. 179. T 2.71 (Megan took a long last look at the pic-) 333. 165. P 2.05 (ture. Looking at it always made her happy.) 315. 151. P 5.72 (You could see it as a relatively normal) 315. 137. P 3.29 (painting, or you could dig deeper and find) 315. 123. P 1.74 (what else it hid. She liked that. "I suppose) 315. 109. P 3. (so," she said with a sigh. "Let\325s go." She) 315. 95. P 1.51 (reached into her purse for her keys, came up) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "5" 5 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 5) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 2.34 (empty-handed, then looked around the room) 72. 711. P 1.72 (for them. She was forever misplacing them.) 72. 697. P 1.73 ("Once I find my keys, that is," she said rue-) 72. 683. P (fully.) 72. 669. T 4.95 (Michele dangled them in front of her) 90. 655. P 1.62 (face. "They were under the chair," she said,) 72. 641. P 6.01 (wagging her finger playfully in Megan\325s) 72. 627. P 3.88 (face. "Great filing system. Some lawyer) 72. 613. P (you\325re going to make!") 72. 599. T 3.61 (Michele was still laughing as she went) 90. 585. P 2.38 (out the door. Megan paused, looking up at) 72. 571. P 5.04 (the picture again. "Yeah," she muttered.) 72. 557. P 6.04 ("Some lawyer I\325m going to make." She) 72. 543. P 2.46 (pulled the door shut on the picture and fol-) 72. 529. P (lowed Michele out into the night air.) 72. 515. T 2.43 ("Sure, criminal law might be fun," Greg) 90. 487. P 4.81 (said as he helped himself to more salad,) 72. 473. P 3.69 ("but corporate law is where the big bucks) 72. 459. P 2.53 (are." He took a bite of salad and rolled his) 72. 445. P 2.85 (eyes in pleasure at the taste. "Besides, I\325d) 72. 431. P 2.88 (probably get to travel a lot. Private plane,) 72. 417. P 4.63 (champagne, caviar, the works!" He linked) 72. 403. P 5.89 (his hands behind his head, stretched his) 72. 389. P (legs out, and smiled with self satisfaction.) 72. 375. T 2.06 (Greg probably ) 90. 361. P 8 F 2.06 (would) 166.77 361. P 7 F 2.06 ( be good for corpo-) 196.11 361. P 1.88 (rate law, Megan mused. His blond hair and) 72. 347. P 2.3 (trim body set off his elegant clothes to per-) 72. 333. P 3.45 (fection. Megan always felt slightly under-) 72. 319. P 2.06 (dressed around him. A little uncomfortable,) 72. 305. P (too. He was just so elegant!) 72. 291. T 2.23 ("Well, you go ahead and be rich," Fred-) 90. 277. P 3.54 (dy drawled. "I still like the old-fashioned) 72. 263. P 4.4 (concept of having lawyers around to help) 72. 249. P 1.54 (people." He grinned. "Although I\325m certain-) 72. 235. P 3.05 (ly not going to turn down any high-paying) 72. 221. P (cases.") 72. 207. T 3.17 (Megan couldn\325t help but smile at Fred-) 90. 193. P 1.59 (dy. She liked his drawl, his barreling laugh,) 72. 179. P 2.97 (and even his crushing handshake. "I don\325t) 72. 165. P 2.84 (think you\325d have a problem collecting your) 72. 151. P 4.09 (fees," Megan teased. Freddy was 6\3255", a) 72. 137. P 1.89 (couple of hundred pounds, with thick unruly) 72. 123. P 4.34 (black hair. And some people thought he) 72. 109. P (looked even bigger.) 72. 95. T 9.01 (Freddy swatted at Megan playfully.) 90. 81. P 3.8 ("Unlike you, you mean," he said. Megan) 315. 711. P 2.09 (was not known for her size. "So what\325s up) 315. 697. P 1.63 (with you, Meg? Still planning on civil law?") 315. 683. P (he asked.) 315. 669. T 3.28 (Right then the waiter arrived with their) 333. 655. P 1.91 (food. Megan waited until they were served,) 315. 641. P 5.43 (then replied, "Looks that way." She was) 315. 627. P 1.55 (dimly aware of an argument at the other end) 315. 613. P 4.63 (of the table over who had eaten the last) 315. 599. P 3.2 (breadstick. It sounded like Jason was tak-) 315. 585. P 1.81 (ing the brunt of the harassment. "My father) 315. 571. P 1.79 (would like me to be a judge some day," she) 315. 557. P (continued.) 315. 543. T 4. ("Your father, huh," Freddy said. "But) 333. 529. P 2.16 (what do you want?" Megan thought back to) 315. 515. P 2.43 (the unfinished picture in her bedroom. She) 315. 501. P 7.94 (looked up into Freddy\325s troubled eyes.) 315. 487. P 5.05 ("Actually," she said hesitantly, "I think I) 315. 473. P (might like to--") 315. 459. T 4.21 ("Get a load of this!" Jason interrupted) 333. 445. P 2.09 (from the other end of the table. "John here) 315. 431. P 5.24 (says he wants to take a creative writing) 315. 417. P (class. He wants to be a writer!") 315. 403. T 3.53 ("I didn\325t say I wanted to be a writer,") 333. 389. P 2.27 (John said. "I just might take a class, that\325s) 315. 375. P 5.4 (all." He brushed his hair from his eyes.) 315. 361. P ("One lousy little class!") 315. 347. T 2.76 (Megan felt sorry for John. He was the) 333. 333. P 3.1 (quietest member of their group. He didn\325t) 315. 319. P 4. (seem to fit in with their usual boisterous-) 315. 305. P 2.53 (ness, but Freddy had dragged him along on) 315. 291. P 1.37 (the last couple of outings, so no one felt like) 315. 277. P 1.79 (complaining. But on the other hand, he had) 315. 263. P 1.86 (really goofed confiding in Jason. Jason was) 315. 249. P 2.2 (the type who stepped all over people\325s feel-) 315. 235. P (ings without ever noticing that he hurt them.) 315. 221. T 4.69 ("Sure, one class, and then you\325ll start) 333. 207. P 3.17 (getting ideas," Jason said. "Next thing we) 315. 193. P 6.58 (know, it\325ll be bye-bye law school." He) 315. 179. P 3.19 (laughed scornfully. "Don\325t you know how) 315. 165. P 1.56 (hard it is to make money as a writer? You\325d) 315. 151. P (be crazy to settle for that!") 315. 137. T 7.63 (Greg nodded his agreement. "He\325s) 333. 123. P 2.33 (right, John, it would be a bad move. Trust) 315. 109. P 3.3 (me." He spooned another spoonful of soup) 315. 95. P 2.92 (into his mouth. It was amazing how Greg) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "6" 6 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 6) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.28 (always seemed to assume that his opinions) 72. 711. P 7.01 (were the definitive word on everything.) 72. 697. P 3.78 (Generally, Megan was amused by his atti-) 72. 683. P 5.95 (tude, but tonight she was merely angry.) 72. 669. P 1.96 (She twirled a gob of spaghetti onto her fork) 72. 655. P 4.43 (and jabbed it angrily into her mouth, not) 72. 641. P (trusting herself to speak.) 72. 627. T 3. (Michele put a hand on John\325s shoulder.) 90. 613. P 5.07 ("Hey, we all have our doubts about law) 72. 599. P 2.22 (school sometimes," she said. "It\325s hard and) 72. 585. P 2.88 (it takes forever, but it\325s gonna be worth it.) 72. 571. P 6.54 (You\325ll see." More condescension, Megan) 72. 557. P 5.39 (thought, shaking her head. Michele and) 72. 543. P (Greg would make a perfect match.) 72. 529. T 2.67 (Okay, she thought. So what. The oth-) 90. 515. P 2.38 (ers were all jerks. Freddy would speak up,) 72. 501. P 2.96 (though. He was always fair. She remem-) 72. 487. P 3.54 (bered the time he didn\325t speak to his best) 72. 473. P 3.34 (friend for a week because he had punched) 72. 459. P 3.67 (out the kid who had stolen Freddy\325s bike.) 72. 445. P 6.05 (Freddy didn\325t like the kid either, but a) 72. 431. P 3.78 (bloody nose was a pretty unfair treatment,) 72. 417. P (he had believed.) 72. 403. T 3.56 (Megan looked over at him, waiting for) 90. 389. P 2.41 (him to speak. The others turned to look at) 72. 375. P 2.05 (Freddy also. Although Greg was the flashi-) 72. 361. P 3.48 (est and liked to think that he had the last) 72. 347. P 2.34 (word, it was Freddy that they depended up-) 72. 333. P (on for the solid advice.) 72. 319. T 2.73 (Freddy finished chewing the last bite of) 90. 305. P 2.26 (his garlic bread. He wiped some stray spa-) 72. 291. P 3.12 (ghetti sauce from his chin, carefully folded) 72. 277. P 3.05 (his napkin on the table, then finally spoke.) 72. 263. P 3.43 ("I\325m sorry, John, but I\325ve got to go along) 72. 249. P 2.22 (with the others on this." He pushed his seat) 72. 235. P 6.62 (back to give his scrunched knees more) 72. 221. P 2.43 (room. "Writing\325s a fun hobby, but it\325s just) 72. 207. P 0.46 (not practical to live off of." He looked at John) 72. 193. P 0.76 (thoughtfully. "Look, my advice is to hold off) 72. 179. P 2. (on the class for a while, then take it later if) 72. 165. P 2.71 (you have time. You don\325t want to get be-) 72. 151. P (hind on graduation so early on.") 72. 137. T 3. (John\325s hands tightened on his glass, his) 90. 123. P 7.67 (knuckles turning white from the strain.) 72. 109. P 1.91 (Megan was entranced by the glimmer of the) 315. 711. P 3.63 (candles on the glass as he twisted it back) 315. 697. P 1.7 (and forth in the light. Finally, he looked up) 315. 683. P 1.76 (and nodded slowly. "Yeah, I guess it was a) 315. 669. P 8.09 (silly idea anyway." He smiled weakly.) 315. 655. P (Michele mercifully changed the subject.) 315. 641. T 7.45 (Megan stared back at Freddy. He) 333. 627. P 3.07 (pulled the replenished basket of breadsticks) 315. 613. P 4.81 (toward himself, considered for a moment,) 315. 599. P 4.34 (then grabbed one and ate on, unaware of) 315. 585. P 2.4 (Megan\325s disbelief. Greg nudged her, point-) 315. 571. P 3.38 (ing to the fork still clutched tightly in her) 315. 557. P 4.37 (fist. She set it down on the plate, tines) 315. 543. P 1.96 (down, then pushed the plate away from her-) 315. 529. P (self. She was no longer hungry.) 315. 515. T 2.86 (Freddy licked his fingers to get the last) 333. 501. P 2.13 (bit of garlic, then turned to her. "So where) 315. 487. P 2.02 (were we, Megan?" he asked. His brow fur-) 315. 473. P 1.19 (rowed in concentration. "Ahh, I know! You) 315. 459. P 2.55 (were going to tell me what you were inter-) 315. 445. P 2.07 (ested in." He looked at her expectantly, tap-) 315. 431. P 2.67 (ping out a beat on his water glass with his) 315. 417. P 1.86 (class ring. Megan never understood why he) 315. 403. P (still wore it.) 315. 389. T 2.81 (She looked down the table. The others) 333. 375. P 4.67 (were off discussing football. John stared) 315. 361. P 2.05 (morosely into his glass of Pepsi, rarely add-) 315. 347. P 4.52 (ing a comment to the discussion. Music) 315. 333. P 5.12 (played softly in the background. Megan) 315. 319. P 3.29 (watched and listened for a bit, then turned) 315. 305. P 1.08 (back to face Freddy. She thought first of her) 315. 291. P 1.95 (unfinished picture, then of the Dali painting.) 315. 277. P (Always in the background, she thought.) 315. 263. T ("Civil law, of course," she said aloud.) 333. 249. T 1 F 3.53 (Lois is simultaneously pursuing an M.S. degree in) 315. 227. P 10.65 (Computer Science and a B.A. in English) 315. 215. P 3.48 (\050Literature\051. Commenting on her unique combina-) 315. 203. P 1.6 (tion of studies, she says with a grin, "English majors) 315. 191. P 2.54 (wonder how I survived Calculus and Physics, Com-) 315. 179. P 1.5 (puter majors leave the room when I mention English,) 315. 167. P 1.82 (and everyone else just plain thinks I\325m weird." Lois) 315. 155. P 1.81 (works part time in Systems Support at the University) 315. 143. P 1.87 (of Central Florida. "Shadow Box" is her first story,) 315. 131. P 3.68 (which she wrote for a creative writing class over) 315. 119. P (the summer.) 315. 107. T 540. 243. 315. 243. 2 L 0 H N 540. 99. 315. 99. 2 L N FMENDPAGE %%Page: "7" 7 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 7) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 4.29 (It had been one of those rare one-on-) 90. 621. P 13.35 (one encounters between warships--our) 72. 607. P 3.67 (ship, the FWS ) 72. 593. P 6 F 3.67 (Macbeth) 154.35 593. P 7 F 3.67 ( and the ) 199.67 593. P 6 F 3.67 (Chirr-is-) 251.68 593. P 2.01 (tat) 72. 579. P 7 F 2.01 (, an Archeon light cruiser. This Archeon) 85.99 579. P 3.54 (ship had hit the L-5 military base at New) 72. 565. P 3.67 (Argent--hard. Slashing in with ultra high-) 72. 551. P 5.93 (energy pulse-beams and laser-guided pro-) 72. 537. P 4.05 (jectiles, they\325d left the old orbital base in) 72. 523. P 3.42 (sorry shape. It would have been a highly) 72. 509. P 2.45 (successful raid, except that their timing was) 72. 495. P 1.97 (awful. Our ship had just left the same base) 72. 481. P 2.09 (not three hours before their attack. We had) 72. 467. P 5.81 (stopped there to pick up a very special) 72. 453. P 5.87 (group of experimental soldiers and bring) 72. 439. P 3.67 (them back to HQ for further testing. We) 72. 425. P 4.68 (brought the ) 72. 411. P 6 F 4.68 (Macbeth) 139.35 411. P 7 F 4.68 ( about and answered) 184.67 411. P 2.29 (New Argent\325s distress call as quickly as we) 72. 397. P (could.) 72. 383. T 3.91 (Their ship was a little bigger but ours) 90. 369. P 2.18 (was a little faster. After a harrowing three-) 72. 355. P 8.28 (day chase at hyperdrive velocities that) 72. 341. P 3.48 (strained both ships to the limit, we caught) 72. 327. P 3.15 (up with them way out near Heard\325s World) 72. 313. P 4.01 (where they stopped and turned to make a) 72. 299. P 2.29 (stand. What followed was a classic, almost) 72. 285. P 3.61 (heroic struggle with high-speed thrusts and) 72. 271. P 2.58 (feints as each captain tried to out-think and) 72. 257. P 2.58 (outmaneuver the other. At last, our superi-) 72. 243. P 1.8 (or agility gave us the tiny opening we need-) 72. 229. P 3.23 (ed. The crew cheered wildly as we put a) 72. 215. P 2.43 (HellHound missile into their port side. But) 72. 201. P 2.17 (we had celebrated too soon. As we flashed) 72. 187. P 3.05 (past them they struck back with two direct) 72. 173. P 4.34 (hits, pulse-beam charges that breached the) 72. 159. P 3.05 (shields and put a jagged two-meter hole in) 72. 145. P 2.42 (our hull--right near the bridge. It had been) 72. 131. P 6.15 (a hard- fought encounter between nearly) 72. 117. P 7.61 (equal adversaries and the outcome was) 72. 103. P 5.06 (more-or-less a draw with both ships sus-) 72. 89. P 8.01 (taining heavy enough damage to make) 72. 75. P (forced landings.) 315. 621. T 3.72 (The alien ship went down at the same) 333. 607. P 2.45 (time as we did. They had little choice, we) 315. 593. P 1.46 (had locked on to them with an attractor field) 315. 579. P 1.19 (and pulled them with us as we began our de-) 315. 565. P 1.89 (scent. We released the field at the last pos-) 315. 551. P 1. (sible moment, hoping their ship would be de-) 315. 537. P 3.1 (stroyed by a heavy impact with the planet.) 315. 523. P 1.84 (This last-ditch effort was well conceived but) 315. 509. P 3.53 (it didn\325t work; we picked up their distress) 315. 495. P 0.94 (call within a half- hour of the crash. Just our) 315. 481. P 3.48 (luck, some of them had survived and they) 315. 467. P 2.24 (were right next door, probably within a few) 315. 453. P (kilometers!) 315. 439. T 5.5 (Our ship was so badly damaged that) 333. 425. P 1.72 (only a few systems on board were even par-) 315. 411. P 1.77 (tially usable. Life support and the emergen-) 315. 397. P 4.06 (cy power generator were okay but pulling) 315. 383. P 3.72 (the Archeon ship down had all but ruined) 315. 369. P 2.78 (our main drive, and the navigation comput-) 315. 355. P 6.23 (ers, the Hopkins defense shield and the) 315. 341. P 2.59 (beam weapons were out. We had also lost) 315. 327. P 1.45 (our Captain and three crewmen, leaving only) 315. 313. P 3.29 (three officers and five crew, two of whom) 315. 299. P 1.26 (were pretty banged up. The platoon of high-) 315. 285. P 2.67 (ly trained, fully equipped, experimental ma-) 315. 271. P (rines had made it through just fine.) 315. 257. T 3.62 (My name\325s Harris and I was the Food) 333. 243. P 7.01 (Procurement Specialist for the ) 315. 229. P 6 F 7.01 (Macbeth) 491.68 229. P 7 F 7.01 (.) 537. 229. P 4.03 (That\325s "ship\325s cook" to those of you who) 315. 215. P 2.34 (might be civilians. Now on a modern war-) 315. 201. P 4. (ship that doesn\325t amount to much usually.) 315. 187. P 2.54 (Feeding the men is mostly a matter of pro-) 315. 173. P 3.73 (graming a big automated kitchen that syn-) 315. 159. P 3.48 (thesizes perfectly balanced \050and very tasty\051) 315. 145. P 3.07 (meals from stockpiles of raw materials--big) 315. 131. P 1.96 (canisters of amino acid, sugar and fatty acid) 315. 117. P 4.62 (stocks or whatever other kind of biomass) 315. 103. P 4.07 (we put into it. But, that doesn\325t mean I) 315. 89. P 2.3 (can\325t cook! I had been well- trained in the) 315. 75. P 72. 648. 540. 648. 2 L 1 H N 10 F (Haute Cuisine) 72. 710. T 72. 707.87 155.64 708.63 R V 5 F (By Phillip Nolte) 72. 694. T 9 F (NU020061@NDSUVM1.BITNET) 72. 680. T 7 F (Copyright \251 1989 Phillip Nolte) 72. 665. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "8" 8 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 8) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.92 (same time-honored cooking techniques that) 72. 711. P 2.51 (chefs have used for centuries because every) 72. 697. P 0.27 (now and then, I cooked real food for the offic-) 72. 683. P 4.34 (er\325s mess and for other special occasions.) 72. 669. P 1.48 (A big part of my duties was to have consist-) 72. 655. P 2.19 (ed of keeping the marines supplied with the) 72. 641. P 3. (right kind of nutrients in their diet. These) 72. 627. P 4.27 (guys had been extensively modified surgi-) 72. 613. P 3.48 (cally and had biomechanical and electronic) 72. 599. P 3.39 (implants that were supposed to make them) 72. 585. P 4.52 (into some very nasty fighting units. Be-) 72. 571. P 1.78 (cause there were still a few bugs in the pro-) 72. 557. P 5.34 (cedure, they needed more things in their) 72. 543. P 1. (food than normal people, people like you and) 72. 529. P 2.34 (me. Del said that their amino acid require-) 72. 515. P 2.45 (ments were totally different. For maximum) 72. 501. P 3.08 (efficiency they needed several D-form ami-) 72. 487. P 1.05 (no acids that didn\325t occur in regular food and) 72. 473. P 3.48 (weren\325t produced in their bodies. I\325m not) 72. 459. P 1.07 (sure why, it had something to do with the in-) 72. 445. P 3.22 (terface between their biochemical and elec-) 72. 431. P 3.2 (tronic components. I would have been re-) 72. 417. P 3.5 (programming the food unit several times a) 72. 403. P 4.67 (day to supply the right amounts of these) 72. 389. P 5.83 (supplements in their food. Normally, it) 72. 375. P (wouldn\325t have been a big problem.) 72. 361. T (Normally.) 90. 347. T 3.62 (In that running fight out in space with) 90. 333. P 8.54 (the Archeon ship and the bone-jarring) 72. 319. P 2.87 (forced landing that followed, our frightfully) 72. 305. P 3.61 (complex and absolutely essential food syn-) 72. 291. P 2.96 (thesizing unit had been reduced to a crum-) 72. 277. P 1.67 (pled, burnt and useless chunk of fused metal) 72. 263. P 4.67 (and plastic. HQ said three weeks, mini-) 72. 249. P 2.01 (mum, before we could hope for any kind of) 72. 235. P 4.51 (help to arrive. Three weeks! No doubt) 72. 221. P 2.43 (about it, we were in deep Sardinian sludge!) 72. 207. P 5.21 (Those twelve marines needed about 5000) 72. 193. P 5.34 (Kcal per day apiece just to stay awake!) 72. 179. P 3.51 (There wasn\325t much on the planet\325s surface) 72. 165. P 5.25 (that we could use either. When it was) 72. 151. P 1.67 (working, the kitchen could make useful food) 72. 137. P 1.45 (out of almost anything, including the misera-) 72. 123. P 3.62 (ble scrub brush that grew sparsely on that) 72. 109. P 1.54 (desert world. But, without it and the special) 72. 95. P 3.27 (supplements it supplied, my marines would) 72. 81. P (be helpless in a few days time!) 315. 711. T 2.67 (Within three hours of the crash we sent) 333. 697. P 2.86 (out a small damage control party to survey) 315. 683. P 1.84 (the wreckage of our ship. Heard\325s World is) 315. 669. P 3.72 (hot, almost unbearably so, but at least the) 315. 655. P 3.67 (air is breathable so they didn\325t need suits.) 315. 641. P 3.9 (As a precaution, three of the experimental) 315. 627. P 4.39 (marines went out with them as an armed) 315. 613. P 2.62 (guard. The enemy must have been waiting) 315. 599. P 1.34 (for something like that because not five min-) 315. 585. P 5.57 (utes passed before they attacked. There) 315. 571. P 2.96 (were half-a-dozen of them on a small anti-) 315. 557. P 6.14 (grav sled, armed with portable weapons.) 315. 543. P 5.01 (With their augmented strength, speed and) 315. 529. P 4.56 (agility, our three marines were way more) 315. 515. P 3.1 (than a match for the six hapless Archeons.) 315. 501. P 1.34 (It was incredible! Those guys fought like de-) 315. 487. P 5.47 (mons, leaping and dodging, spinning and) 315. 473. P 3.34 (weaving--all while firing with deadly accu-) 315. 459. P 0.77 (racy! The conflict ended abruptly when Mar-) 315. 445. P 2.58 (quardt, the gunner\325s mate, dashed up to the) 315. 431. P 2.88 (front gun pod and cut their sled to ribbons) 315. 417. P 3.05 (with a burst of 20 mm explosive projectile) 315. 403. P 2.42 (fire. The marines had gotten three of them) 315. 389. P 2.11 (before the rest went scurrying away to safe-) 315. 375. P (ty, over a dune.) 315. 361. T 1.56 (Full of confidence from our easy victory,) 333. 347. P 1.89 (we struck back. The raid that we staged on) 315. 333. P 5.28 (them ended with five Archeon casualties,) 315. 319. P 4.34 (two dead and three wounded, but without) 315. 305. P 2.34 (any real appreciable change in the situation.) 315. 291. P 5.28 (Two rounds--slight advantage earth. The) 315. 277. P 2.62 (Archeons closed up their ship and wouldn\325t) 315. 263. P 4.1 (come out after that. Meanwhile, my ma-) 315. 249. P (rines were getting hungry and edgy.) 315. 235. T 2. (I made a sort of gruel out of some local) 333. 221. P 4.29 (plants and herbs that we had analyzed as) 315. 207. P 2.24 (non-poisonous. I mixed them with some of) 315. 193. P 3.04 (the twenty or so kilos of amino acid stock) 315. 179. P 3.84 (that had somehow survived the damage to) 315. 165. P 1.37 (the food module. They ate it but they didn\325t) 315. 151. P 2.79 (like it. Worse, it wasn\325t doing them much) 315. 137. P (good either.) 315. 123. T 3.26 ("Jesus Christ, Harris! What the hell is) 333. 109. P 2.56 (this slop?" said Fenster, a hulk of a marine) 315. 95. P 2.96 (who had been slightly wounded in the raid) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "9" 9 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 9) 292.25 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.25 (on the Archeon ship. "Fighting men gotta) 72. 711. P (have real food! You can shove this bullshit!") 72. 697. T 3. (I didn\325t get upset with them, they were) 90. 683. P 2.62 (just letting off some steam. Those marines) 72. 669. P 1.67 (had a lot of energy, it was a consequence of) 72. 655. P 3.94 (the modifications that they had undergone.) 72. 641. P 2.17 (You see, it wasn\325t just their bodies that had) 72. 627. P 2.79 (been changed, their heads had been messed) 72. 613. P (with too. A lot.) 72. 599. T 1.12 (As a chief petty officer I had to share my) 90. 585. P 4.05 (quarters with one of the junior officers, a) 72. 571. P 1.95 (tall, skinny, black kid named Delmont Rich-) 72. 557. P 2.13 (ardson. He was a xenobiologist, sort of the) 72. 543. P 3.32 (ship\325s "Archeon expert" if there really was) 72. 529. P 2.84 (such a thing. Del\325s not a bad guy, but he) 72. 515. P 3.62 (takes the scientific approach too far some-) 72. 501. P 6.05 (times. It gives him some very strange) 72. 487. P 1.14 (ideas. He asked me to come with him to ex-) 72. 473. P 2.38 (amine the bodies of the enemy soldiers that) 72. 459. P 2.21 (had been killed in their ill-fated raid on our) 72. 445. P 5.48 (ship. I shrugged and went along; there) 72. 431. P 4.94 (weren\325t that many able-bodied men about) 72. 417. P 3.63 (and he needed help. Besides, he was my) 72. 403. P (friend.) 72. 389. T 4.96 (When we got there we found one of) 90. 375. P 3.38 (them still alive, although not in very good) 72. 361. P 2.2 (shape. Del said that we were two of just a) 72. 347. P 3.25 (handful of people who had actually seen a) 72. 333. P 1.75 (live Archeon up close. They were a lot dif-) 72. 319. P 1.26 (ferent than I had imagined. To tell the truth,) 72. 305. P 4.67 (I thought they were kind of pretty. We) 72. 291. P 5.39 (called the Archeons "crabs" because they) 72. 277. P 2.53 (look a lot like an oversized horseshoe crab.) 72. 263. P 2.05 (They have the same pointy tail, the rounded) 72. 249. P 2.91 (shell and the multiple pairs of jointed legs.) 72. 235. P 3.97 (Their eyes are violet and there are six of) 72. 221. P 1.52 (them, four right on the front of the shell and) 72. 207. P 2.77 (two that are borne on short, delicate stalks.) 72. 193. P 2.53 (Below the eyes are the intricate, ornate and) 72. 179. P 3.56 (very complex mouthparts. Just behind the) 72. 165. P 2.24 (mouth are the manipulators, the first pair of) 72. 151. P 6.51 (legs which have evolved to serve them) 72. 137. P 3.97 (much as our hands do for us. There\325s a) 72. 123. P 6.07 (pleasing symmetry to the Archeon form,) 72. 109. P 4.84 (meaning the proportions are right and all) 72. 95. P 3.29 (that, but there\325s real beauty in the patterns) 72. 81. P 2.84 (of blue-green iridescence that shine in their) 315. 711. P 6.11 (carapaces--rich and colorful when they\325re) 315. 697. P 2.23 (alive, but it fades quickly when they die. I) 315. 683. P 4.44 (know, we watched the colors fade as the) 315. 669. P 2.61 (badly torn-up survivor finally lost his battle) 315. 655. P (for survival.) 315. 641. T 3.05 (Del said that the familiar shape was an) 333. 627. P 8.28 (incredible case of something he called) 315. 613. P 5.58 ("convergent evolution". That means that) 315. 599. P 5.5 (even though they look like the old-earth) 315. 585. P 5.51 (creature, they aren\325t really related at all.) 315. 571. P 2.28 (They\325re the products of completely different) 315. 557. P 2.04 (evolutions. I don\325t know, it makes sense to) 315. 543. P (him.) 315. 529. T 4.21 (We brought the "survivor" and the re-) 333. 515. P 1.63 (mains of his two buddies back to Del\325s little) 315. 501. P 2.55 (bio-lab which was one part of the ship that) 315. 487. P 2.1 (hadn\325t been wrecked in some way or anoth-) 315. 473. P 2.76 (er. He came out three hours later blinking) 315. 459. P 2.63 (his eyes and stretching to get the kinks out) 315. 445. P 3.56 (of his muscles. Apparently that biological) 315. 431. P 4.15 (investigation stuff can be hard work. He) 315. 417. P (looked dog-tired!) 315. 403. T 3.61 ("What did you find out, Del?" I asked) 333. 389. P (him.) 315. 375. T 3.95 ("Interesting anatomy," he said. "It\325s a) 333. 361. P 4.54 (basic arthropod architecture much like the) 315. 347. P 1.17 (forms found on earth. They have a chitinous) 315. 333. P 2.47 (exoskeleton, an open circulatory system and) 315. 319. P 1.3 (paired ventral nerve chords. Where they dif-) 315. 305. P 2.88 (fer dramatically is that three or four of the) 315. 291. P 2.3 (front ganglia on each nerve chord are swol-) 315. 277. P 3.13 (len and fused into a huge masses of nerve) 315. 263. P 3.05 (tissue that probably serve them as the cen-) 315. 249. P 1.93 (ters for higher learning. At least I think so.) 315. 235. P 1.26 (If it\325s true, their brains are actually larger for) 315. 221. P 2.5 (their body size than ours are!" When Del) 315. 207. P 3.3 (starts to ramble like that, I just sort of let) 315. 193. P 1.42 (him go, even though I don\325t understand a lot) 315. 179. P 1.15 (of what he\325s saying. It helps him to relax. I) 315. 165. P 3.62 (had no trouble understanding what he said) 315. 151. P (next, however.) 315. 137. T 5.21 ("I do have some good news for you) 333. 123. P 4.18 (though, Harris," he said. "I\325m done with) 315. 109. P 2.87 (them. I\325ve put what I need to save in the) 315. 95. P (freezer.") 315. 81. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "10" 10 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 10) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.72 ("Great, Del," I said. "Ah... what does) 90. 711. P (that mean to me?") 72. 697. T 5.13 ("It means that the chemistry of those) 90. 683. P 3.11 (beasts is such that they have all of the D-) 72. 669. P 1.72 (amino acids you could possibly need to feed) 72. 655. P (your marines.") 72. 641. T 6.4 (You see what I mean about strange) 90. 627. P (ideas?) 72. 613. T 9.23 ("Jesus, Del," I asked incredulously.) 90. 599. P 3.88 ("You don\325t mean that I should cook dead) 72. 585. P 2.88 (crab and serve it to those marines do you?) 72. 571. P 8.59 (You should\325ve heard them complaining) 72. 557. P (about the food before!") 72. 543. T 1.37 ("It sounds kind of gruesome, I know," he) 90. 529. P 3.45 (shrugged. "But there are reports that they) 72. 515. P 4.67 (eat humans when they get the chance so) 72. 501. P 5.24 (that shouldn\325t be a problem. Besides, I) 72. 487. P 4.86 (don\325t see any other solution to this food) 72. 473. P 5.51 (thing. I checked them over extensively,) 72. 459. P 2.04 (they should be perfectly safe to eat. As for) 72. 445. P 2.67 (the marines, they might bellyache some but) 72. 431. P (they\325ll follow orders. Let\325s talk to Gibbs.") 72. 417. T 4.51 (The ship\325s acting commander, Lieuten-) 90. 403. P 2.34 (ant Theodore Gibbs, felt the same when we) 72. 389. P 5.78 (asked him about it, although he thought) 72. 375. P 2.75 (about it for a while before he made up his) 72. 361. P 2.14 (mind. "It seems a bit barbaric, I agree," he) 72. 347. P 1.73 (said. "But we really don\325t have much choice) 72. 333. P (do we? I\325ll give the order.") 72. 319. T 2.22 (That night I built a small fire out in the) 90. 305. P 1.27 (sand a short distance from the ship. In a pot) 72. 291. P 2.88 (fashioned out of a big bearing cup that I\325d) 72. 277. P 3.12 (scrounged from engineering, I cooked up a) 72. 263. P 2.23 (generous portion of "crab stew" for my ma-) 72. 249. P 2.93 (rines to eat. An Archeon is a little bigger) 72. 235. P 1.97 (than a man, so there was no shortage of the) 72. 221. P 4.55 (rich, white meat. I can still picture that) 72. 207. P 3.17 (makeshift pot bubbling and frothing over a) 72. 193. P 2.1 (smoldering scrub brush fire with a bunch of) 72. 179. P 0.83 (long, jointed crab legs sticking up out of it. I) 72. 165. P 3.34 (used all my cooking skills and the meager) 72. 151. P 1.78 (stock of local herbs in an effort to make the) 72. 137. P 4.34 (stuff palatable. I won\325t repeat the things) 72. 123. P 8.51 (that the marines were saying as they) 72. 109. P 2.53 (watched me cook. To demonstrate to them) 72. 95. P (that it was safe, I ate some first.) 72. 81. T 2.24 (You won\325t like the way this sounds, but) 333. 711. P 1.88 (that stew was good; damned good! Our en-) 315. 697. P 1.04 (emy cooked up into a meal fit for a gourmet!) 315. 683. P 2.38 (The flavor was sort of like a cross between) 315. 669. P 2.05 (snow crab and lobster but it was better than) 315. 655. P 1.22 (either one of them! Several of the men asked) 315. 641. P 2.75 (for seconds. Best of all, they began to re-) 315. 627. P (gain their strength.) 315. 613. T 2.95 (The biggest surprise awaited us the fol-) 333. 599. P 1.95 (lowing morning when we were contacted by) 315. 585. P 1.58 (the master of the Archeon ship. Unexpected) 315. 571. P 2.55 (good news! He wanted to talk about some) 315. 557. P 8.93 (kind of cooperative agreement between) 315. 543. P 5.53 (them and us that would enable our two) 315. 529. P 3.77 (small parties to survive. We decided that) 315. 515. P 2.96 (they must have had enough of our marines) 315. 501. P 2.26 (and wanted an end to the business. To our) 315. 487. P 4.62 (knowledge, it was the first time that any) 315. 473. P 3.17 (kind of meaningful dialogue had ever been) 315. 459. P 2.48 (attempted with a crab war party since man-) 315. 445. P 1.91 (kind had first encountered them and the war) 315. 431. P (had started, over eighteen months before.) 315. 417. T (We were understandably a little nervous.) 333. 403. T 3.82 (We met them out in a wide-open area) 333. 389. P 4.11 (that was about eqidistant from both ships.) 315. 375. P 4.95 (From that spot we could see both ships;) 315. 361. P 2.3 (with its tail in the air and the fuselage bent) 315. 347. P 3.34 (and crumpled, theirs didn\325t look any better) 315. 333. P 2.48 (than ours did! Each group was represented) 315. 319. P 3.19 (by six individuals. Richardson and I were) 315. 305. P 3.95 (included in the delegation because he was) 315. 291. P 2.72 (what passed for the local crab expert and I) 315. 277. P 2.01 (was one of the few men left who were well) 315. 263. P 1.82 (enough to make the trip. They gave me the) 315. 249. P 2.39 (job of holding the Kravitz universal transla-) 315. 235. P 1.93 (tor; across the way I could see a crab coun-) 315. 221. P 1.86 (terpart holding a similar device. Their lead-) 315. 207. P 2.07 (er was easy to pick out, he was a little big-) 315. 193. P 4.39 (ger than the others and the blue-green of) 315. 179. P 1.52 (his shell had purple highlights in it. He was) 315. 165. P 1.94 (also the first to speak. This was a series of) 315. 151. P 5.39 (staccato clicks and chirps made with his) 315. 137. P 2.28 (mouthparts that was followed shortly by the) 315. 123. P (synthesized voice of the translator.) 315. 109. T 8.49 ("Greetings are given to the valiant) 333. 95. P 4.47 (earth-born warriors. We come in peace.") 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "11" 11 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 11) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 1.27 (He did a sort of bow. Gibbs hesitated a sec-) 72. 711. P (ond and bowed in return.) 72. 697. T 2.84 ("We are honored," Gibbs replied. "The) 90. 683. P 1.39 (Archeon soldiers also fight gallantly. I com-) 72. 669. P 2.91 (plement them. We come with peaceful in-) 72. 655. P 3.21 (tent also. You spoke of cooperation. We) 72. 641. P 1.63 (feel it would be advantageous to both of our) 72. 627. P (races.") 72. 613. T 3.73 (There was another series of chirps and) 90. 599. P (clicks.) 72. 585. T 4.92 ("We the descendants of the great Ar-) 90. 571. P 6.54 (cheon hive-den were greatly touched by) 72. 557. P 3.72 (your act of supreme respect for our fallen) 72. 543. P (comrades," continued the leader.) 72. 529. T 4.23 ("We have nothing but supreme respect) 90. 515. P 3.37 (for all Archeons," said Gibbs, "But I must) 72. 501. P 1.67 (apologize. I\325m not sure I know what you\325re) 72. 487. P (talking about.") 72. 473. T 0.93 ("I refer to the consumption of the flesh of) 90. 459. P 2.91 (our hive- mates. Your rites were observed) 72. 445. P 3.63 (last evening by a large group of our war-) 72. 431. P 5.61 (riors, including myself. Because of this) 72. 417. P 2.18 (most reverent act, we feel that we can safe-) 72. 403. P (ly extend to you an offer for peace.") 72. 389. T 1.64 ("I.. um.. ah.. on behalf of the Federation,) 90. 375. P 3.56 (I accept your offer!" said Gibbs. He was) 72. 361. P 2.39 (caught off-guard but wasn\325t about to let the) 72. 347. P (opportunity slip away.) 72. 333. T (The crab leader continued.) 90. 319. T 1.78 ("One of the major obstacles to peace be-) 90. 305. P 1.93 (tween our races has been a total lack of un-) 72. 291. P 4.89 (derstanding of each other\325s customs. By) 72. 277. P 1.77 (your most gracious act, your small party has) 72. 263. P 4.28 (made enormous strides towards a peaceful) 72. 249. P (relationship with our race in the future.") 72. 235. T 2.73 (We were absolutely blown away! Over) 90. 221. P 2.51 (the next two weeks, we were able to main-) 72. 207. P 2.76 (tain a genuine, if rather uneasy, peace. Of) 72. 193. P 2.05 (course, we didn\325t allow our marines to have) 72. 179. P 2.48 (any contact with the aliens at all. By their) 72. 165. P 4.9 (very nature, they were difficult to reason) 72. 151. P 1.42 (with, even for their fellow humans! Most of) 72. 137. P 3.4 (the actual dialogue and contact was under-) 72. 123. P 2.09 (taken by Del Richardson and me. Yes, me.) 72. 109. P (The crabs had insisted on it.) 72. 95. T 10.81 (Our usual contact was a smaller) 90. 81. P 9.36 (\050younger?\051 Archeon named Clack-whirr-) 315. 711. P 2.81 (snap-click-click who seemed to actually en-) 315. 697. P 2.36 (joy our company. We got to know "Click") 315. 683. P 2.67 (well enough to ask some pointed questions.) 315. 669. P 3.01 (Yes, they thought our marines were demon) 315. 655. P 3.48 (fighters. No, they weren\325t afraid of them,) 315. 641. P 4.81 (just respectful of their abilities. On that) 315. 627. P 1.67 (fateful night, a war party consisting of all of) 315. 613. P 4.43 (their remaining able-bodied soldiers \050about) 315. 599. P 1.42 (thirty, I think\051 had been poised for an all-out) 315. 585. P 3.63 (attack when they saw me and the marines) 315. 571. P 3.72 (at our little cookout and realized what we) 315. 557. P 0.82 (were doing. They had immediately called off) 315. 543. P (the attack.) 315. 529. T 5.62 (He told us that the Archeons always) 333. 515. P 1.13 (had a ritual for their dead which included the) 315. 501. P 1.38 (consumption of at least a portion of the dead) 315. 487. P 5.29 (comrade\325s flesh. A little more talk and) 315. 473. P (some further investigation revealed why.) 315. 459. T 2.34 (The crabs have a sort of racial memory.) 333. 445. P 6.4 (Each member of the race inherits these) 315. 431. P 3.81 (memories from both parents at conception.) 315. 417. P 1.72 (All of the experiences of each individual are) 315. 403. P 3.62 (somehow added to this racial memory and) 315. 389. P 2.15 (can be passed on to a living member of the) 315. 375. P 1.42 (race, usually by eating a small portion of the) 315. 361. P 2.06 (flesh. The experiences of the individual are) 315. 347. P 4.1 (thus passed on to whichever of his mates) 315. 333. P 2.67 (eats a part of him. To pass away uneaten,) 315. 319. P 4.73 (and therefore without the retention of his) 315. 305. P 2.1 (memories by at least some other member of) 315. 291. P 2.88 (the race is the worst thing that can happen) 315. 277. P 4.3 (to a crab! They had observed our stew-) 315. 263. P 4.39 (making party and had, luckily for us, as-) 315. 249. P 2.2 (sumed that we were paying homage to their) 315. 235. P 1.77 (dead, thus the overtures for peace from their) 315. 221. P 4.82 (leader the next day. What an incredible) 315. 207. P (break!) 315. 193. T 2.48 (The one who does the actual cooking is) 333. 179. P 2.56 (usually the hive\325s religious leader, a greatly) 315. 165. P 3.48 (honored position. I guess that\325s why they) 315. 151. P 1.3 (wanted me as a contact and why all of them,) 315. 137. P 2.89 (including the ship\325s leader, treated me with) 315. 123. P (so much respect!) 315. 109. T 3.8 (Del took a closer look at some of the) 333. 95. P 4.77 (crab remains that he\325d put in the freezer) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "12" 12 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 12) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.07 (that night. It didn\325t take him long to find) 72. 711. P 3.26 (what he was looking for. Each and every) 72. 697. P 5.84 (cell in the creature\325s bodies contained a) 72. 683. P 2.01 (number of large pieces of extrachromosomal) 72. 669. P 3.46 (DNA. He called them "plasmids". These) 72. 655. P 4.84 (structures were the agents by which both) 72. 641. P 6.41 (the racial and individual memories were) 72. 627. P 4.67 (passed on. These particular plasmids are) 72. 613. P 4.81 (extraordinarily heat stable so they survive) 72. 599. P 3.34 (being cooked and they are also evolved to) 72. 585. P 2.49 (reach and enter the recipient\325s cells by way) 72. 571. P 1.82 (of the gut. Once inside a cell they replicate) 72. 557. P 2.95 (and spread, replicate and spread, much like) 72. 543. P 1.84 (a virus, until every cell in the body contains) 72. 529. P 1.86 (them. A perfectly evolved method for pass-) 72. 515. P (ing on information--by eating it!) 72. 501. T 2.1 (On a hunch he took blood samples from) 90. 487. P 2.21 (me and some of the marines who had eaten) 72. 473. P 2.05 (the stew and checked us for presence of the) 72. 459. P 5.38 (same plasmids. To my utter shock and) 72. 445. P 3.67 (amazement, he found them in our cells as) 72. 431. P 1.73 (well! Our biochemistries are similar enough) 72. 417. P (to the Archeons that "infection" can occur.) 72. 403. T 4.08 (Fortunately, I don\325t have the necessary) 90. 389. P 2.19 (enzyme systems for my body to translate or) 72. 375. P 3.82 ("decode" the Archeon plasmids, so I can\325t) 72. 361. P 1.49 (get at any of the memories, thank God! No,) 72. 347. P 2. (Del says that they\325ll probably just remain in) 72. 333. P 1.81 (my system, not doing much of anything, but) 72. 319. P (not hurting anything either, just sitting there.) 72. 305. T 1.96 (You would think that a race with such a) 90. 291. P 3.34 (well-evolved means of passing on informa-) 72. 277. P 3.25 (tion would be very wise indeed. In many) 72. 263. P 2.05 (ways and about many things, they are. Un-) 72. 249. P 2.53 (fortunately, they\325d had a run-in with a cou-) 72. 235. P 2.2 (ple of mammalian races early in their histo-) 72. 221. P 3.77 (ry. These had been faithfully recorded in) 72. 207. P 2.29 (their racial memories and, as a result, every) 72. 193. P 6.4 (Archeon had a sort of built-in paranoia) 72. 179. P 11.36 (against warm-blooded fur-bearing crea-) 72. 165. P 4.46 (tures. Creatures like us. In their minds) 315. 711. P 4.06 (anything but war with us was unthinkable) 315. 697. P (when they had first encountered men.) 315. 683. T 3. (All that is changed now. Diplomats of) 333. 669. P 3.86 (both races, armed with a bit more knowl-) 315. 655. P 5.08 (edge about each other--mostly because of) 315. 641. P 3.88 (the chance events on Heard\325s World--were) 315. 627. P 1.44 (able to hammer out a peaceful agreement for) 315. 613. P 4.28 (coexistence. Within two months, the war) 315. 599. P 2.24 (had ended. A truly significant step forward) 315. 585. P (for man and crab!) 315. 571. T 2.63 (There was a part of the treaty that isn\325t) 333. 557. P 3.29 (well publicized, however. Like I said, the) 315. 543. P 4.67 (crabs hate to lose the life experiences of) 315. 529. P 3.25 (even a single one of their individuals. So) 315. 515. P 4.18 (the authorities are keeping a watchful eye) 315. 501. P 2.56 (on your\325s truly. I\325ll be allowed to live out) 315. 487. P 1.64 (my normal life just fine but as soon as I be-) 315. 473. P 1.62 (gan to show signs of fading they\325re shipping) 315. 459. P 4.01 (me off to Archea-hive, the Archeon home) 315. 445. P 3.84 (planet. I house the memories of three of) 315. 431. P 4.62 (their fallen mates. Their solution to this) 315. 417. P 2.29 (problem is simple: I\325ll attend a gathering of) 315. 403. P 4.84 (the families of the deceased--as the main) 315. 389. P 3.27 (course on the menu! A chance for me to) 315. 375. P 1.46 (serve mankind by being "served" myself! In) 315. 361. P 1.9 (a way I suppose it\325s a kind of honor so I\325m) 315. 347. P 2.42 (not complaining. I just wish they could do) 315. 333. P 1.95 (something about the awful dreams I\325ve been) 315. 319. P (having lately...) 315. 305. T 1 F 3.19 (Phil is a research specialist in Plant Pathology at) 315. 281. P 2. (NDSU in Fargo, North Dakota. He is also a Ph.D.) 315. 269. P 2.41 (candidate at the same time. He\325s been writing sci-) 315. 257. P 3.34 (ence fiction for about three years but has enjoyed) 315. 245. P 1.8 (reading it all his life. He comments, "I got interest-) 315. 233. P 3.43 (ed in the writing end because of the many disap-) 315. 221. P 3.52 (pointments I\325ve had while attending science fiction) 315. 209. P 2.26 (movies and coming away wondering how they could) 315. 197. P 1.89 (have spent so much money on actors and special ef-) 315. 185. P 1.94 (fects, and so damned little on a decent story!" This) 315. 173. P (is his fifth story, of seven total.) 315. 161. T 315. 297. 540. 297. 2 L 0 H N 315. 153. 540. 153. 2 L N FMENDPAGE %%Page: "13" 13 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 13) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 2.91 (Davidson warned me about it. He said) 90. 621. P 1.54 (it wasn\325t a good idea. Now it\325s too late and) 72. 607. P 2.71 (I\325m not sure how I feel. The time doesn\325t) 72. 593. P 2.71 (help any and since a human brain takes up) 72. 579. P 5.81 (only about a thousand cubic centimeters,) 72. 565. P 3.57 (you realize how small that volume is, and) 72. 551. P 3.48 (how little it can possibly contain, and you) 72. 537. P 5.06 (simply don\325t have anything left inside to) 72. 523. P 3.71 (think about. I never liked how it started,) 72. 509. P 1.14 (and I\325m not sure if I like how it finished, but) 72. 495. P (a story is a story.) 72. 481. T 3.3 (I am a murderer. I don\325t like being a) 90. 467. P 3.34 (murderer, and to be totally honest, I never) 72. 453. P 1.48 (really intended to kill. I suppose, in all fair-) 72. 439. P 4.89 (ness, nothing could be more irrelevant at) 72. 425. P 2.46 (this point. I just thought I\325d throw it in to) 72. 411. P 1.71 (try and convince myself that I used to be an) 72. 397. P 2.51 (educated, thinking creature at one time, and) 72. 383. P 2.19 (try not to let society, and I suppose that in-) 72. 369. P 1.46 (cludes myself, stamp me as a murderer. I\325m) 72. 355. P 4.61 (not the unshaven, wobbly-eyed drunk that) 72. 341. P 4.67 (killed for money or the psychotic, crazed) 72. 327. P 2.71 (youth who killed for sport. I\325d like to say) 72. 313. P 2.34 (that I was framed, but I can\325t think of any-) 72. 299. P 1.87 (one who could have framed me except God.) 72. 285. P 0.94 (I got into an argument at a party. One of my) 72. 271. P 2.2 (friend\325s wife\325s friend\325s deals. I went alone.) 72. 257. P 4.17 (I didn\325t even know the guy. I disagreed) 72. 243. P 2.17 (with him about disagreeing with me. I was) 72. 229. P 5.41 (drunk and raving about nuclear weapons.) 72. 215. P 4.1 (Next thing I know, push comes to shove,) 72. 201. P 3.88 (and I suddenly see him on the floor with) 72. 187. P 0.85 (blood pouring out of his eyes and a long, fur-) 72. 173. P 4.38 (rowed welt on the side of his head deep) 72. 159. P 1.97 (enough to hold water. I look down and see) 72. 145. P 1.52 (a fireplace poker in my right hand. I passed) 72. 131. P (out. I won\325t dwell on that too much.) 72. 117. T 3.96 (Needless to say, after a lengthy trial I) 90. 103. P 4.59 (got fifty to seventy. I never even knew) 72. 89. P 1.37 (what hit me. Now, if there\325s one thing I got) 72. 75. P 3.17 (out of this, it\325s the dim realization of how) 315. 621. P 1.7 (easy prison is. No shit. You have so many) 315. 607. P 6.26 (people screaming about mistreatment and) 315. 593. P 9.27 (abuse in prisons, and the government) 315. 579. P 3.43 (dumps out quadrillions of bucks to fix the) 315. 565. P 3.25 (places up, and to try and give the inmates) 315. 551. P 1.29 (more opportunity for growth and creative de-) 315. 537. P 1.55 (velopment, Lord help us all, and it\325s really a) 315. 523. P 3.3 (swell place now. I got to read a lot, and) 315. 509. P 8.17 (think, and do some writing, and they) 315. 495. P 3.19 (showed us movies all the time, and during) 315. 481. P 2.86 (the first two years, I began to wonder if it) 315. 467. P (was supposed to be torture at all.) 315. 453. T 1.08 (I was the bright guy. I could help people) 333. 439. P 5.84 (with financial problems, and relationships) 315. 425. P 5.38 (with the outsiders, and I was setting up) 315. 411. P 1.81 (huge CD accounts for the long term inmates) 315. 397. P 1.55 (whom after they got out in fifty years would) 315. 383. P 2.06 (discover their ten thousand dollars had blos-) 315. 369. P 1.19 (somed into half a million. Needless to say, I) 315. 355. P 3.67 (was pretty popular. Davidson was big on) 315. 341. P 1.45 (keeping track of shit on the outside. He had) 315. 327. P 5.93 (newspapers and current magazines spread) 315. 313. P 1.63 (out in his cell as though he was housebreak-) 315. 299. P 1.94 (ing a dog. He came to me because he con-) 315. 285. P 3.48 (sidered me his intellectual equal. We had) 315. 271. P 3.2 (been designated the smart ones. He want-) 315. 257. P 3.08 (ed my opinion. He also wanted me to go) 315. 243. P (first.) 315. 229. T 4.84 (He told me about the new sentencing) 333. 215. P 2.62 (system that the NSC was trying to put into) 315. 201. P 1.34 (effect. He told me about the NASA mergers) 315. 187. P 3.46 (and the grant funds and about how it was) 315. 173. P 3.67 (just in the beginning stages, and the more) 315. 159. P 1.52 (he talked, the more I began to feel like Alex) 315. 145. P 3.45 (in A Clockwork Orange, finding out about) 315. 131. P 2.21 (the new treatment that gets him out of pris-) 315. 117. P 8.74 (on quick, provided he becomes brain-) 315. 103. P 3.34 (washed. That, I think, was when the first) 315. 89. P 1.84 (light pangs of fear kicked in. But Davidson) 315. 75. P 72. 648. 540. 648. 2 L 1 H N 10 F (Solitaire) 72. 710. T 72. 707.87 121.01 708.63 R V 5 F (By Garry Frank) 72. 694. T 9 F (CSTGLFPC@UIAMVS.BITNET) 72. 680. T 7 F (Copyright \251 1989 Garry Frank / Failsafe Productions) 72. 665. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "14" 14 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 14) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 1.96 (was constant, and he really thought I should) 72. 711. P 1.71 (talk to the warden. When I asked him why,) 72. 697. P 1.71 (he told me about a recent vote in the Senate) 72. 683. P 3.1 (he had uncovered, a vote attached to some) 72. 669. P 3.91 (other goofy bill that wouldn\325t show up in) 72. 655. P 3.27 (Newsweek, but would in the Congressional) 72. 641. P 1.67 (Record, for anybody bored or boring enough) 72. 627. P 2.5 (to sift through its all-text pages. Turns out) 72. 613. P 4.1 (the Senate vote was that the selection for) 72. 599. P 2.3 (the test orbital was to be pulled from Glad-) 72. 585. P 5.8 (stone Maximum Security, which was the) 72. 571. P 3.34 (place both Davidson and I were staying at) 72. 557. P 2.24 (the time, courtesy of the United States judi-) 72. 543. P 2.09 (cial branch. That\325s why he was so interest-) 72. 529. P 3.04 (ed in it. I reluctantly agreed, and went to) 72. 515. P (see the warden the next day.) 72. 501. T 3.48 (He was a little stunned, and wanted to) 90. 487. P 2.79 (know where I came across my information,) 72. 473. P 1.17 (and again I felt like I had just fallen onto the) 72. 459. P 2.04 (set of A Clockwork Orange. I just beat the) 72. 445. P 2.04 (bush for a bit, and then he settled back into) 72. 431. P 2.86 (his naugahyde chair and decided to tell me) 72. 417. P 1.17 (about it. The NSC and NASA were working) 72. 403. P 2.29 (together to develop what they called the or-) 72. 389. P 1.45 (biting cell. The idea was to lock a hardened) 72. 375. P 2.72 (criminal in a tiny clear plastic bubble, with) 72. 361. P 1.26 (food and air and shit, and fire him into orbit.) 72. 347. P 3. (The idea was that he could see out, and it) 72. 333. P 2.58 (would feel as though there was nothing be-) 72. 319. P 4.09 (tween him and space. This plus the raw) 72. 305. P 5.47 (boredom, the soundproofing, and just the) 72. 291. P 2.06 (goddamn loneliness were supposed to be re-) 72. 277. P 4.78 (ally good rehabilitation methods. I won-) 72. 263. P 2.86 (dered why and how. I guess it had some-) 72. 249. P 2.09 (thing to do with the philosophy behind soli-) 72. 235. P 4.72 (tary confinement. I had been in solitary) 72. 221. P 1.78 (several times, and I didn\325t really mind it. It) 72. 207. P 3.38 (was relaxing. It seemed kinda fun to me,) 72. 193. P 5.51 (and that\325s what I told the warden. He) 72. 179. P 3.34 (smirked and said that he wouldn\325t want to) 72. 165. P 2.78 (try it. He said that studies had proven the) 72. 151. P 5.01 (orbiting cell was sheer torture, and some) 72. 137. P 2.67 (other studies said it could cause insanity or) 72. 123. P 2.67 (even be lethal. That\325s why they wanted to) 72. 109. P (try it out.) 72. 95. T 2.26 (I\325m not sure why I did it. Sometimes I) 90. 81. P 2. (dream that I did it just to help the scientific) 315. 711. P 1.47 (research aspect of it, that I did it so the peo-) 315. 697. P 2.1 (ple who designed it could know more about) 315. 683. P 2.63 (it, but I know that\325s not true. I suppose it) 315. 669. P 2.19 (was just the short duration of it. They said) 315. 655. P 1.82 (that if I stayed in the bubble for one month,) 315. 641. P 1.71 (that the rest of my sentence would be remit-) 315. 627. P 1.19 (ted and I would be a free man. In the words) 315. 613. P 1.42 (of Fibber McGee, it seemed like a good idea) 315. 599. P 2.64 (at the time. To make the dull part brief, I) 315. 585. P 3.2 (was taken to a NASA training center, spe-) 315. 571. P 1.6 (cially built for the Orb. That was what they) 315. 557. P 1.21 (called it, the "Orb". They had built only one) 315. 543. P 1.67 (of them so far, and they let me see it before) 315. 529. P 2.39 (I began my debriefing. Apparently, it went) 315. 515. P 5.76 (up with the automated shuttles. It was) 315. 501. P 4.15 (sealed, and placed in a huge apparatus in) 315. 487. P 1.79 (the shuttle bay which would put it into orbit) 315. 473. P 2.5 (and could also retrieve it. Then the shuttle) 315. 459. P 1.24 (would land. The whole thing was automatic,) 315. 445. P 1.86 (and the plan was for nobody to be on board) 315. 431. P 3.19 (except me, as though they thought I might) 315. 417. P (actually try to hijack a space shuttle.) 315. 403. T 1.45 (They showed me the Orb. It was a clear) 333. 389. P 6.61 (plexiglass sphere about four feet across.) 315. 375. P 2.91 (There wasn\325t any hatch. They would have) 315. 361. P 1.22 (to cut the top off of it to let me in, then they) 315. 347. P 2.71 (would seal it shut again with some kind of) 315. 333. P 1.7 (torch. It didn\325t leave any seams. It was in-) 315. 319. P 1.24 (credible. A clear, plastic bubble just floating) 315. 305. P 1.89 (in space. The only thing that marred it was) 315. 291. P 2.19 (this black box on the outside. It was about) 315. 277. P 3.37 (a foot on all sides, and it was attached to) 315. 263. P 4.81 (the outside of the bubble like a parasite.) 315. 249. P 2.51 (The box contained a special algae. I could) 315. 235. P 3.72 (tell the goofy scientist who was there just) 315. 221. P 3.5 (loved to brag about it. They developed a) 315. 207. P 2.84 (new strain just for this project. They built) 315. 193. P 1.56 (their own life form, how about that. I guess) 315. 179. P (it was like being God.) 315. 165. T 2.26 (The box had this algae in it, and a self-) 333. 151. P 6.72 (contained light source that would let it) 315. 137. P 4.53 (grow. Three holes connected it with the) 315. 123. P 4.82 (Orb. One of the holes was for the air.) 315. 109. P 2.53 (Through it, the algae used my carbon diox-) 315. 95. P 6.43 (ide and made water and oxygen. Just) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "15" 15 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 15) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 2.42 (enough for one man. The second hole was) 72. 711. P 4.25 (for processing urine and feces. It wasn\325t) 72. 697. P 6.39 (fancy, and it wasn\325t comfortable, but it) 72. 683. P 1.88 (worked. Through the third hole, I could sip) 72. 669. P 1.67 (some water mixed with algae. That was my) 72. 655. P 2.04 (food. I was supposed to eat this plant. No) 72. 641. P 5. (shit. They told me it was tasteless and) 72. 627. P 2.3 (very nourishing and the tube only let a cer-) 72. 613. P 2.14 (tain amount go through. Enough to support) 72. 599. P 1.92 (one man indefinitely. It was a little ecosys-) 72. 585. P 1.97 (tem, a controlled one. It would let me live,) 72. 571. P (but it would not let me enjoy it.) 72. 557. T 2.23 (It was around now that I began to get a) 90. 543. P 1.47 (little scared. I had no idea what it would be) 72. 529. P 2.17 (like, and I spent most of my four-day train-) 72. 515. P 0.71 (ing period worrying. Again, to make the bor-) 72. 501. P 2.34 (ing part short, they sealed me up, naked, in) 72. 487. P 0.7 (my little Orb, and set me up for launching. It) 72. 473. P 2.72 (was pretty uneventful, since I spent the en-) 72. 459. P 4.86 (tire launch in the blackness of the cargo) 72. 445. P 1.44 (bay. I just sat and waited. And enjoyed the) 72. 431. P (lack of gravity.) 72. 417. T 9.61 (The terror started when the hatch) 90. 403. P 1. (opened. There was some kind of goop in the) 72. 389. P 6.54 (plexiglass that would prevent nasty rays) 72. 375. P 1.83 (from burning up my skin, but it didn\325t seem) 72. 361. P 1.72 (to change the fact that the earth was agoniz-) 72. 347. P 3.52 (ingly bright. I had to shield my eyes for) 72. 333. P 6.47 (about seven minutes, while the launcher) 72. 319. P 6. (shoved me out into orbit. Squinting, I) 72. 305. P 1.76 (looked out and saw the engines fire, and the) 72. 291. P 2.27 (shuttle went out ahead of me. I was in or-) 72. 277. P (bit. I was alone.) 72. 263. T 3.57 (At first, I was impressed by the bright) 90. 249. P 3.91 (sun, which was tolerable now, as was the) 72. 235. P 7.57 (earth. I studied the motions and the) 72. 221. P 2.17 (shapes. I watched the shadows of the earth) 72. 207. P 1.3 (bounce off the moon, and I stared at the mo-) 72. 193. P 2.1 (tions of cloud patterns and land shapes with) 72. 179. P 3.62 (hypnotic intensity. But after a few hours,) 72. 165. P 2.03 (you just plain run out of stuff to see. I got) 72. 151. P 3.06 (bored with earth and started studying some) 72. 137. P 3.05 (other planets and stars. Needless to say, I) 72. 123. P 2.91 (got bored with them fairly quickly as well.) 72. 109. P 4.01 (I\325d say about five hours had passed since) 72. 95. P 0.92 (my launch, and already I could think of noth-) 72. 81. P (ing to do.) 315. 711. T 2.14 (The minutes, which used to pass by like) 333. 697. P 4.12 (seconds, now seemed to drag into endless) 315. 683. P 3.15 (days. I began to slowly lose my sense of) 315. 669. P 1.49 (time. I ate as much of the algae as it would) 315. 655. P 1.77 (let me, and I had a good shit, but then what) 315. 641. P 2.9 (else is there to do? I started to wonder if) 315. 627. P 3.61 (eating and shitting would become priceless) 315. 613. P 4.1 (luxuries now that they were the only real) 315. 599. P 3.39 (physical activities I could do. I wondered) 315. 585. P 1.78 (how long it would be until I could get more) 315. 571. P 1.25 (food. The horrible idea that the food distrib-) 315. 557. P 5.84 (utor might be broken flashed across my) 315. 543. P (mind. I had nothing to do but think.) 315. 529. T 1.74 (I started talking to myself for a while. I) 333. 515. P 3.81 (began to just talk and talk about anything) 315. 501. P 3. (that came to mind. All of the background) 315. 487. P 2.38 (voices in my brain which are cut off some-) 315. 473. P 5.15 (where before they get to my mouth just) 315. 459. P 2.67 (blurted themselves out. After a while, I ran) 315. 445. P 3.1 (out of thoughts and began to recite poetry.) 315. 431. P 2.84 (I\325m not sure why. Little fragments of sto-) 315. 417. P 3.71 (ries and plays and shit I was supposed to) 315. 403. P 4.18 (have forgotten after I graduated from col-) 315. 389. P 5.4 (lege. Shards of Shakespeare and Dante.) 315. 375. P 2.01 (Verses of Homer and Frost. I babbled non-) 315. 361. P 2.29 (sensically for hours until I realized I wasn\325t) 315. 347. P 3.5 (even listening to myself. I realized that I) 315. 333. P 2.67 (had just been staring out of the side of the) 315. 319. P 4.59 (Orb the entire time, and got hold of my) 315. 305. P 3.48 (brain. I decided talking to myself accom-) 315. 291. P 3.13 (plished very little and decided not to do it) 315. 277. P 2.04 (again as I wiped a river of saliva off of my) 315. 263. P (chin and neck. My breathing slowed down.) 315. 249. T 4.29 (I began to spend entire days with my) 333. 235. P 3.3 (eyes closed. It was easier to think if you) 315. 221. P 1.81 (didn\325t have to look at the nothingness above) 315. 207. P 1.51 (your head and the earth, a two hundred kilo-) 315. 193. P 1.84 (meter drop below your feet. I was comfort-) 315. 179. P 3.23 (able with the blackness behind my eyelids,) 315. 165. P 3.34 (and that was what I stared at for the next) 315. 151. P 2.15 (week. Things began to play themselves out) 315. 137. P 5.67 (in swirling images, trying to replace the) 315. 123. P 1.85 (black, to cut into it like fireworks. I started) 315. 109. P 1.75 (to play movies in my head. Every fragment) 315. 95. P 3.67 (I could remember, it was flashed onto the) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "16" 16 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 16) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 2.67 (silver screen behind my eyelids, larger than) 72. 711. P 2.21 (life. The sounds were totally clear, and the) 72. 697. P 1.48 (images flowed easily. I replayed Bogart and) 72. 683. P 3.28 (Jimmy Stewart. I replayed Hoffman, Red-) 72. 669. P 3.62 (ford, and Malcolm McDowell. Sean Con-) 72. 655. P 1.43 (nery. Michael Caine. Endless Woody Allen) 72. 641. P 2.17 (lines flashed across my mind with unbeliev-) 72. 627. P 0.62 (able ferocity, and I found myself laughing out) 72. 613. P 1.44 (loud more than once, half from comedy, half) 72. 599. P 3.26 (from shock. The second half of the week) 72. 585. P 2.76 (was filled with songs. Thousands of them,) 72. 571. P 2.29 (played back across my ears like some flaw-) 72. 557. P 2.39 (less recording system. Every move. Every) 72. 543. P 4.76 (note. Classical, rock, and all the Jazz I) 72. 529. P 2.1 (could remember. But, perhaps for the same) 72. 515. P 2.88 (reason why we forget a good tune in daily) 72. 501. P 5.41 (life, I became bored hearing Beethoven\325s) 72. 487. P 1.67 (Ninth six million times, and started grabbing) 72. 473. P 1.88 (at fragments of songs I had only heard once) 72. 459. P 1.89 (ore twice, mentally scrambling to catch hold) 72. 445. P 1.64 (of one or two notes that could lead to a lad-) 72. 431. P 1.41 (der of music. It was frustrating, and I found) 72. 417. P 2. (myself crying continuously without even be-) 72. 403. P (ing aware of it.) 72. 389. T 4.58 (I started to think about what was be-) 90. 375. P 3.34 (yond the glass. The vast, black emptiness) 72. 361. P 2.3 (which I could see, yet couldn\325t see. It was) 72. 347. P 1.42 (black because there was no light, but I could) 72. 333. P 2.17 (still see it, even with this lack. I could see) 72. 319. P 1.7 (the lack of light. The blackness. It was lit-) 72. 305. P 6.89 (erally nothing. There was nothing out) 72. 291. P 3.79 (there. The fear turned into claustrophobia) 72. 277. P 4.59 (over the next two days. I found myself) 72. 263. P 1.5 (blinking too often. I found myself unable to) 72. 249. P 2. (focus on sound. I found myself tapping the) 72. 235. P 2.46 (glass for no apparent reason with the tip of) 72. 221. P 1.67 (my finger, very lightly, just tapping, and un-) 72. 207. P 3.5 (consciously intensifying it into a light slap) 72. 193. P 1.72 (and I remember sweating madly as the pow-) 72. 179. P 1.46 (er of my taps increased until I was pounding) 72. 165. P 0.9 (on the glass with the full force of my fist and) 72. 151. P 1.89 (not even being aware of it. I would scream) 72. 137. P 2.88 (at the top of my lungs for minutes straight) 72. 123. P 1.38 (with my fist pounding against the side of the) 72. 109. P 3.56 (plexiglass with booming rhythm. I started) 72. 95. P 6. (to see things in the black emptiness of) 72. 81. P 4.72 (space. My mind started to play horrible) 315. 711. P 2.97 (tricks on me. I began getting paranoid. I) 315. 697. P 1.34 (kept jerking around, glancing over my shoul-) 315. 683. P 2.29 (der thinking that something was in the bub-) 315. 669. P 2.25 (ble with me. Sometimes I would push my-) 315. 655. P 1.47 (self away from one side of the bubble where) 315. 641. P 2.72 (I thought that something was outside trying) 315. 627. P 2.26 (to get in, then I\325d think that the same thing) 315. 613. P 2.72 (was happening on the other side, and whirl) 315. 599. P 3.62 (around again, screaming with fear, yet un-) 315. 585. P 4.43 (able to hear myself, lashing my fists and) 315. 571. P 3.17 (legs out into the clear, cold solidity of the) 315. 557. P (Orb.) 315. 543. T 5.62 (That was how I cut myself the first) 333. 529. P 4.82 (time. Pow! Into the side of the glass.) 315. 515. P 1.92 (Stinging pain in my knuckles. The red spot) 315. 501. P 2.63 (on the wall. I found myself staring at that) 315. 487. P 1.38 (red spot for hours on end afterwards for lack) 315. 473. P 1.3 (of better things to do. The blood tricked up-) 315. 459. P 2.67 (wards from my hand and began to separate) 315. 445. P 1.04 (into little globs that bobbled in the air like ti-) 315. 431. P 2.42 (ny acrobats. I watched the blood flow into) 315. 417. P 2.78 (the zero-g of the Orb, a thin stream of red) 315. 403. P 3.42 (responding to it\325s own laws of physics. I) 315. 389. P 1.43 (jammed the knuckle into my mouth and kept) 315. 375. P 2.12 (it there for about an hour, staring at the red) 315. 361. P 4.13 (spot on the side of the Orb with shaking) 315. 347. P 2.12 (eyes and terrified sweat. I kept it there un-) 315. 333. P (til the bleeding stopped. Then I passed out.) 315. 319. T 5.56 (Sleep was rare and fragmented. My) 333. 305. P 5.87 (body\325s timetable had been turned inside-) 315. 291. P 1.52 (out, and it seemed as though I was never to-) 315. 277. P 2.04 (tally sure if I had gotten too much sleep, or) 315. 263. P 2.72 (not enough. My sleep was liberally coated) 315. 249. P 3.93 (with nightmares too horrifying to mention.) 315. 235. P 6.17 (Visions of evil I hadn\325t had nightmares) 315. 221. P 2.27 (about since I was a kid came back, as if to) 315. 207. P 4.22 (haunt me, as if to say "You thought you) 315. 193. P 2.39 (were scared of your closet! Ha! Whaddya) 315. 179. P (think of this?!") 315. 165. T 3.24 (I think that was when my mind started) 333. 151. P 1.56 (to go. I think I just plain ran out of stuff to) 315. 137. P 3.04 (think about. I spent a day mowing lawns.) 315. 123. P 2.06 (Mentally mowing lawns which I had plotted) 315. 109. P 1.86 (out in size and shape beforehand, noting ev-) 315. 95. P 2.72 (ery tree, every tall weed, and when I came) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "17" 17 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 17) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 5.34 (to them, mower buzzing furiously, some-) 72. 711. P 3.19 (times I would have it choke or run out of) 72. 697. P 4.89 (gas, and I would mentally imagine every) 72. 683. P 1.51 (second of my angered, sweaty trip to the ga-) 72. 669. P 1.51 (rage to get a gas can or a wrench. I spent a) 72. 655. P 1.62 (week building houses. Plotting out the land,) 72. 641. P 2.78 (surveying it, pouring in the cement founda-) 72. 627. P 1.39 (tions. I imagined every insignificant motion,) 72. 613. P 2.68 (every board, every nail, every stroke of the) 72. 599. P 2.6 (hammer. It was all flawless. I once spent) 72. 585. P 2.26 (five minutes on the same set of shingles. I) 72. 571. P 3.79 (built seven houses in all. Very big ones,) 72. 557. P 1.15 (too. But as I said before, you just run out of) 72. 543. P 1.15 (stuff to think about. You can feel your mind) 72. 529. P 2.14 (just slowing down, devoid of not just active) 72. 515. P 4.62 (thought, but creative energy too, and you) 72. 501. P 2.8 (run out of stuff to do. It\325s difficult to de-) 72. 487. P 2.3 (scribe, I know, and a part of me hopes that) 72. 473. P 2.63 (none of you ever find out exactly what it\325s) 72. 459. P 1.57 (like. I started to think of HAL in 2001, and) 72. 445. P 2.68 (about his dying words: "My mind is going.) 72. 431. P 2.98 (My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it." I) 72. 417. P 3.15 (spent the next two days repeating his lines) 72. 403. P 2.11 (in my head: "My mind is going. I can feel) 72. 389. P 4.64 (it." Over and over again, for forty-eight) 72. 375. P 0.88 (hours: "I can feel it." I no longer knew where) 72. 361. P 2.46 (the lines were from: "My mind is going. I) 72. 347. P 1.82 (can feel it." I no longer had the urge to cry,) 72. 333. P 0.88 (or to sleep, or to think, or even to move. My) 72. 319. P 2.51 (joints began to stiffen up: "My mind is go-) 72. 305. P (ing.") 72. 291. T 1.55 (I\325m not sure how long I remained in that) 90. 277. P 2.73 (trance, but I do know I came out of it. It) 72. 263. P 4.1 (was something on the outskirts of my vi-) 72. 249. P 9.83 (sion, something almost subliminal that) 72. 235. P 4.58 (made me realize that I should have been) 72. 221. P 3.5 (paying more attention to the planet. I re-) 72. 207. P 2.45 (member suddenly being able to think again,) 72. 193. P 1.77 (and I remember my first thought being pain.) 72. 179. P 1.6 (Pain in my knees and back. I hadn\325t shifted) 72. 165. P 7.78 (my position in God knows how long.) 72. 151. P 3.48 (Weeks? The pain subsided quickly, and I) 72. 137. P 5.17 (whirled myself around to face the planet) 72. 123. P 1.37 (Earth. The first thing I noticed that was odd) 72. 109. P 2.27 (was all of the flashes. All over the surface) 315. 711. P 5.06 (of the planet, bright flashes would erupt,) 315. 697. P 4.39 (then spread slowly over areas the size of) 315. 683. P 1.72 (Brazil as their glare reduced from a pinpoint) 315. 669. P 1.74 (flash to a dull smoky glow. Then I saw the) 315. 655. P 3.52 (source of the flashes. I was not the only) 315. 641. P 6. (thing in orbit. Emerging from strategic) 315. 627. P 6.45 (points on every single land mass, there) 315. 613. P 7.07 (were tiny disruptions in the atmosphere) 315. 599. P 1.81 (which propelled themselves in smooth, flaw-) 315. 585. P 5.56 (less arcs, leaving trails of smoke behind) 315. 571. P 2.63 (them, and touched the surface again to cre-) 315. 557. P 3.48 (ate other pinpoint explosions. It was then) 315. 543. P (that I knew. I knew what was happening.) 315. 529. T 2.51 (The sizes of the warheads were stagger-) 333. 515. P 6.38 (ing, six thousand megatons at least. I) 315. 501. P 3.39 (watched slowly as the United States civili-) 315. 487. P 1.3 (zation was wiped clean off the surface of the) 315. 473. P 1.12 (globe, as if by God himself. I watched retal-) 315. 459. P 3.62 (iatory strikes do the same to almost every) 315. 445. P 3.67 (corner of every continent, and it was then) 315. 431. P 4.39 (that I knew that the remaining population) 315. 417. P 2.59 (would be lucky to be a number in the mil-) 315. 403. P (lions.) 315. 389. T 6.12 (I glanced back to the United States.) 333. 375. P 2.56 (There are only three shuttle launch stations,) 315. 361. P 1.3 (and all of them were practically in the center) 315. 347. P 1.67 (of some detonation radius. I am almost cer-) 315. 333. P 3.86 (tain the Orb design station is now rubble,) 315. 319. P 2.29 (and I am starting to think that nobody even) 315. 305. P (remembers my name.) 315. 291. T 3.88 (The temperature in here is seventy-two) 333. 277. P 6.06 (degrees Fahrenheit, but I still feel very,) 315. 263. P (very cold.) 315. 249. T 1 F 3.13 (Garry is a Broadcasting and Film major attending) 315. 209. P 3.03 (the University of Iowa. He is an aspiring screen-) 315. 197. P 3.66 (writer and an accomplished playwright, with three) 315. 185. P 2.16 (of his full-length plays having been produced by the) 315. 173. P 3.29 (West Side Players, an alternative theatre organiza-) 315. 161. P 3.03 (tion at Iowa. He writes short fiction in his spare) 315. 149. P 2.57 (time, and watches too many movies. Garry\325s other) 315. 137. P 2.59 (intrests include reading, skiing, acting, "splitting at-) 315. 125. P (oms and graduating.") 315. 113. T 315. 108. 540. 108. 2 L 0 H N 315. 225. 540. 225. 2 L N FMENDPAGE %%Page: "18" 18 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 18) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 1.29 (Sunday crawled by. Phil got up early and) 90. 621. P 4.1 (worked on three more lawns that day but) 72. 607. P 4.01 (his heart wasn\325t in his work. He kept re-) 72. 593. P 3.79 (membering the pictures he had seen. He\325d) 72. 579. P 3.55 (look at a bed of flowers and wonder how) 72. 565. P 3.54 (they would look in a picture taken by the) 72. 551. P 3.34 (new camera. He\325d see a bird in flight and) 72. 537. P 1.77 (wonder the same thing. Sunday finally end-) 72. 523. P (ed.) 72. 509. T 3.8 (On Monday morning Phil awoke early,) 90. 495. P 3.67 (went over to Mr. Harris\325s house to mow) 72. 481. P 4.39 (his lawn and when he had completed his) 72. 467. P 2.88 (work there took his bike, trailer and all, to) 72. 453. P 2.42 (the schoolyard. He went into the all too fa-) 72. 439. P 2. (miliar building and to the physics lab where) 72. 425. P (he hoped Mr. Riley would be found.) 72. 411. T 4.84 (Stephen Riley was there trying to get) 90. 397. P 0.88 (across the coefficient of friction to a group of) 72. 383. P 2.72 (three students. Phil poked his head into the) 72. 369. P 4.61 (classroom and made a quick motion with) 72. 355. P 1.28 (one hand indicating the laboratory. Mr. Riley) 72. 341. P 5.47 (nodded that he understood and continued) 72. 327. P 2.17 (with his lecture. This was a signal that they) 72. 313. P 6.72 (had used many times in the past. The) 72. 299. P 1.72 (schools darkroom was located just off of the) 72. 285. P 3.47 (physics laboratory and Phil needed permis-) 72. 271. P 2.25 (sion to use it. As photography editor he ac-) 72. 257. P 5.33 (tually didn\325t need permission, but it was) 72. 243. P 5.28 (school policy that someone had to know) 72. 229. P 3.94 (whenever anyone was using the darkroom.) 72. 215. P 4.67 (This policy came about after he had lost) 72. 201. P 2.21 (track of time last year while working in the) 72. 187. P 3.17 (darkroom and was locked in the laboratory) 72. 173. P (overnight.) 72. 159. T 3.17 (The principle wasn\325t too upset over the) 90. 145. P 1.53 (whole episode but his mom had been hyster-) 72. 131. P 2.05 (ical! No one had known where he was until) 72. 117. P 4.38 (the janitor had let him out of the locked) 72. 103. P 3.22 (physics lab the following morning. By that) 72. 89. P 1.46 (time the police were looking for him and his) 72. 75. P 4.29 (mother was certain that he had been kid-) 315. 621. P 1.77 (napped. He was grounded for two weeks for) 315. 607. P 4.24 (that! It was Mr. Riley that had suggested) 315. 593. P 3.72 (this notification scheme and it satisfied all) 315. 579. P 2.53 (concerned. If Phil was going to be working) 315. 565. P 1.59 (late in the darkroom Mr. Riley would let the) 315. 551. P 1.81 (night janitor know. Before he locked up, the) 315. 537. P 1.85 (janitor would stop by the lab and tell Phil it) 315. 523. P (was time to go. It worked well for everyone.) 315. 509. T 3.39 (Phil had been waiting in the laboratory) 333. 495. P 1.67 (for about half an hour when Mr. Riley came) 315. 481. P 1.72 (in. "I thought you were going to be working) 315. 467. P 2.43 (in the darkroom," Mr. Riley said as he saw) 315. 453. P (Phil sitting at one of the laboratory benches.) 315. 439. T 3.46 ("No, actually I wanted to talk to you,") 333. 425. P 1.41 (Phil told him. Mr. Riley had taught Phil ev-) 315. 411. P 6.54 (erything about photography that he now) 315. 397. P 4.14 (knew. Darkroom technique and safety, de-) 315. 383. P 1.27 (veloping, printing, cropping, air brushing and) 315. 369. P 1.96 (everything else he had learned from Mr. Ri-) 315. 355. P (ley.) 315. 341. T 2.37 ("Well, I\325m done for the day," Mr. Riley) 333. 327. P 4.4 (said sighing, "I hope those kids pick this) 315. 313. P 1.29 (stuff up this time. They won\325t graduate with-) 315. 299. P 2.26 (out it." He then added, "I just hate to see a) 315. 285. P 3.25 (kid not graduate because of what could be) 315. 271. P 2.43 (my failure to get something across to them.) 315. 257. P (Now, what do you want to talk about?") 315. 243. T 1.73 (Phil again explained the new camera and) 333. 229. P 2.3 (the pictures to Mr. Riley. He had told him) 315. 215. P 1.21 (that he had practically made up his mind and) 315. 201. P 2.58 (that he had the money with him right now.) 315. 187. P 2.63 (After he left the school he was planning to) 315. 173. P 3.72 (head to the camera shop. Mr. Riley urged) 315. 159. P (caution.) 315. 145. T 1.92 ("I know you\325re excited about the camera) 333. 131. P 3.67 (but I\325ve never heard of that make, though) 315. 117. P 2.39 (the name does sound familiar for some rea-) 315. 103. P 1.09 (son. Nor have I ever heard of a camera capa-) 315. 89. P 3.71 (ble of taking pictures of the type you de-) 315. 75. P 72. 648. 540. 648. 2 L 1 H N 10 F (Picture Perfect) 72. 710. T 72. 707.87 158.7 708.63 R V ( \050part 2 of 2\051) 158.7 710. T 5 F (By Gene Smith) 72. 694. T 9 F (ESMITH@SUVM.BITNET) 72. 680. T 7 F (Copyright \251 1989 Gene Smith) 72. 665. T FMENDPAGE %%Page: "19" 19 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 19) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.68 (scribe. I\325d wait a few days before making) 72. 711. P 6.2 (the purchase. Something that sounds too) 72. 697. P (good to be true usually is.") 72. 683. T 2.4 (Phil thought to himself, "First my father) 90. 669. P 2.71 (and now Mr. Riley. They both don\325t want) 72. 655. P 4.2 (me to buy the camera. Hell, they haven\325t) 72. 641. P (even seen it or those pictures!") 72. 627. T 3.96 (Aloud he said, "Thanks Mr. Riley. I\325ll) 90. 613. P (think about it.") 72. 599. T 1.92 (Mr. Riley replied, "You do that Phil. I\325ll) 90. 585. P 2.25 (tell you what, I\325ll check into the literature I) 72. 571. P 1.82 (have and see what I can find out. The name) 72. 557. P 1.92 (is familiar but I don\325t know why. Stop back) 72. 543. P 3.41 (in a couple of days and I\325ll let you know) 72. 529. P (what I find out.") 72. 515. T 3.38 (As Phil was leaving the lab he said to) 90. 501. P 1.64 (Mr. Riley, "Thanks again. I\325ll stop back in a) 72. 487. P 1.81 (couple of days." He left the school to where) 72. 473. P 3.34 (he had parked his bike and trailer. On the) 72. 459. P 1.38 (way out of the school building he had decid-) 72. 445. P 1.76 (ed that he couldn\325t wait to own that camera.) 72. 431. P 3.34 (He was going to go back to the shop and) 72. 417. P (purchase it today.) 72. 403. T 6.94 (He headed downtown to the camera) 90. 389. P 5.58 (shop, parked his bike so that the trailer) 72. 375. P 3.87 (wouldn\325t interfere with anyone walking by) 72. 361. P 5.77 (and went inside the shop. The bells at-) 72. 347. P 6.51 (tached to the door announced his entry) 72. 333. P 4.44 (again as he opened then closed the door.) 72. 319. P 3.41 (The heat inside the shop was as bad as it) 72. 305. P 3.29 (had been two days previous. Phil was sur-) 72. 291. P 3.15 (prised at this since the weather had cooled) 72. 277. P 3.81 (off Saturday night and it was no nowhere) 72. 263. P 1.71 (near as warm as it had been on Saturday af-) 72. 249. P (ternoon.) 72. 235. T 3.74 (The storekeeper came though the door-) 90. 221. P 1.96 (way leading to the back and said cheerfully,) 72. 207. P 5.47 ("Good Morning young man. Back I see.) 72. 193. P 3.84 (Have you decided on purchasing the cam-) 72. 179. P 2.85 (era?" All the time he was smiling that dis-) 72. 165. P (concerting smile.) 72. 151. T 3.07 (Phil was again uneasy as he said, "Yes) 90. 137. P 4.23 (I have." He then quickly asked, "Can the) 72. 123. P 1.49 (camera be returned if it isn\325t all you claim it) 72. 109. P (is?") 72. 95. T 4.32 ("Oh, by all means," assured the store-) 90. 81. P 1.64 (keeper. "If this camera doesn\325t give you pic-) 315. 711. P 4.5 (tures just as good as these," he indicated) 315. 697. P 3.95 (the pictures still lying on the counter top,) 315. 683. P 0.48 ("you bring it right back. I\325ll refund every pen-) 315. 669. P (ny, no questions asked.") 315. 655. T 2.15 ("You\325ve got a deal!" said Phil excitedly.) 333. 641. P 3.62 (He reached into his pocket and pulled out) 315. 627. P 3.57 (the $200.00 he had brought along with an) 315. 613. P 6.01 (additional amount sufficient to cover the) 315. 599. P (sales tax.) 315. 585. T 8.71 ("Oh, this is unnecessary," said the) 333. 571. P 2.94 (storekeeper after having counted the money) 315. 557. P 2. (Phil had handed to him. He handed Phil the) 315. 543. P 5.05 (amount Phil had given him to cover the) 315. 529. P 3.31 (sales tax and said, "My price was $200.00) 315. 515. P 3.77 (even. Put the remainder in your pocket to) 315. 501. P 1.83 (purchase film." He was smiling as he count-) 315. 487. P 3.05 (ed the money as though enjoying a private) 315. 473. P (joke.) 315. 459. T 2. (Phil was surprised that he didn\325t have to) 333. 445. P 2.42 (pay sales tax. You paid sales tax on almost) 315. 431. P 4.29 (everything in New York! He didn\325t argue) 315. 417. P 2.63 (further however. He put the money back in) 315. 403. P (his pocket and waited.) 315. 389. T 3.12 ("Ah, your camera," said the storekeeper) 333. 375. P 7.97 (apologetically. "I had almost forgotten.") 315. 361. P 1.63 (Reaching into the display case he removed a) 315. 347. P 4.45 (box containing the Follis 138. He opened) 315. 333. P 2.2 (the box and checked the contents and asked) 315. 319. P 2.92 (Phil to do the same. The box contained an) 315. 305. P 2.62 (instruction booklet, the camera, and a black) 315. 291. P 1.4 (carrying case. "Here you go. Enjoy your pic-) 315. 277. P 3.57 (tures," he said as he slid the box and it\325s) 315. 263. P (contents across the counter to Phil.) 315. 249. T 3.78 (Phil excitedly closed the box and said,) 333. 235. P 0.69 ("Oh, I will!" and quickly left the store. If Phil) 315. 221. P 2.86 (had turned around he might have been dis-) 315. 207. P 2.88 (turbed to see the wicked grin on the store-) 315. 193. P (keepers face.) 315. 179. T 1.74 (Carefully maneuvering his bike and trail-) 333. 165. P 3.01 (er another three blocks, Phil made his way) 315. 151. P 2.73 (to the ShutterBug. He walked inside, carry-) 315. 137. P 3.09 (ing his purchase, and made his way to the) 315. 123. P 1.84 (display counter at the back of the store. The) 315. 109. P 10.34 (ShutterBug, specializing in photography) 315. 95. P 6.34 (equipment and supplies, displayed photo-) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "20" 20 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 20) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.72 (graphs on every wall. On this side, where) 72. 711. P 4.1 (Phil was walking, was a winter theme. A) 72. 697. P 3.76 (skier was in mid-air, caught in the instant) 72. 683. P 1.15 (he hurtled from the top of a large dune. Next) 72. 669. P 4. (to this was a photo of three skiers, taken) 72. 655. P 2.9 (from above, making snake pattern traces as) 72. 641. P (they skied down a mountainside.) 72. 627. T 4.64 ("Wait until they see my photographs,") 90. 613. P 3.38 (Phil thought to himself. He patted the box) 72. 599. P 7.26 (he was carrying. "It will put these to) 72. 585. P (shame.") 72. 571. T 4.05 (He made his way to back and set his) 90. 557. P 2.84 (purchase on the counter. He looked at the) 72. 543. P 2.54 (man behind the counter and said, "Mr. Jen-) 72. 529. P 0.71 (son, I\325d like a roll of Kodacolor 135-24, ASA) 72. 515. P 1.59 (100, and a roll of Tri-X Pan film, ASA 400,) 72. 501. P (please.") 72. 487. T 4.62 (Mr. Jenson, the owner of the Shutter-) 90. 473. P 1.57 (Bug, was familiar with Phil having seen him) 72. 459. P 1.5 (in the store many times before. He looked at) 72. 445. P 2.22 (the box Phil had set on the counter top and) 72. 431. P (asked, "Buy a camera Phil?") 72. 417. T 4.52 (Phil said proudly, "Yes. My first one.) 90. 403. P 5.72 (Bought it just today at the new camera) 72. 389. P 2.01 (store where the old arcade used to be. Need) 72. 375. P 3.67 (to get some film though. The store hadn\325t) 72. 361. P (stocked any yet.") 72. 347. T 3.04 ("New camera store huh?" said Mr. Jen-) 90. 333. P 8.3 (son. "I\325m not aware that another had) 72. 319. P 3.17 (opened up. Well, the competition might do) 72. 305. P 2.51 (me good," he said laughing. "What did you) 72. 291. P 5.36 (buy Phil?" he asked genuinely interested,) 72. 277. P ("Mind if I take a look?") 72. 263. T 4.43 ("No, go ahead Mr. Jenson," Phil said,) 90. 249. P 5.15 (pleased to have an adult take interest in) 72. 235. P 3.54 (something he himself enjoyed. Phil opened) 72. 221. P 1.63 (the box the camera was setting in and slid it) 72. 207. P (across the counter top to Mr. Jenson.) 72. 193. T 2.39 ("A Follis ay?" asked Mr. Jenson. "Can\325t) 90. 179. P 1.73 (say I\325ve ever heard of it before." Looking at) 72. 165. P 4.4 (the camera more closely Mr. Jenson said,) 72. 151. P 1.72 ("Phil this camera has no controls, no way to) 72. 137. P (set the aperture or shutter speed.") 72. 123. T 3.28 ("I know," replied Phil. "It doesn\325t need) 90. 109. P 1.19 (them. It\325s fully automatic. All I have to do is) 72. 95. P (load the camera and shoot the picture.") 72. 81. T 1.29 (Placing the camera back into the box Mr.) 333. 711. P 2.3 (Jenson said, "Well good luck with the cam-) 315. 697. P 2.41 (era son." He then added with a wink, "You) 315. 683. P 6.39 (know I\325m a little disappointed that you) 315. 669. P 3.01 (didn\325t buy a camera from me. Would have) 315. 655. P (given you a good deal too.") 315. 641. T 2.8 (Phil blushed a little with embarrassment) 333. 627. P 4.5 (and said, "Well I would have bought the) 315. 613. P 1.34 (camera here, you know that, but I got such a) 315. 599. P 6.84 (good deal and the pictures this camera) 315. 585. P (takes are so incredible I had to buy it.") 315. 571. T 1.75 ("I understand," said Mr. Jenson as he re-) 333. 557. P 2.96 (trieved a roll of black and white and color) 315. 543. P 0.67 (film from the honeycomb display behind him.) 315. 529. P 1.89 ("Here\325s the film you wanted, and here," Mr.) 315. 515. P 1.72 (Jenson selected another roll of film from the) 315. 501. P 4.67 (display case and placed it with the other) 315. 487. P 4.86 (two. "I assume you\325re testing the camera) 315. 473. P 3.76 (with both black and white and color film.) 315. 459. P 2.78 (This roll is on the house. It\325s a 1600 ASA) 315. 445. P 1.3 (color film. If you want to test a camera thor-) 315. 431. P (oughly test it through the extremes.") 315. 417. T 6.63 ("Thanks Mr. Jenson, I do appreciate) 333. 403. P 3.31 (that!" Phil said, honestly surprised. "I\325ll be) 315. 389. P 1.3 (back in a day or two to have this film devel-) 315. 375. P 4.34 (oped. You still have same day processing) 315. 361. P (don\325t you?") 315. 347. T 2.32 ("Oh yes," said Mr. Jenson collecting the) 333. 333. P 1.85 (money for the two rolls of film he had rung) 315. 319. P 2.09 (up on the register as they talked. "Bring in) 315. 305. P 0.3 (the film before noon and you\325ll have your pic-) 315. 291. P (tures ready before closing time.") 315. 277. T 3.39 (Taking the bag containing the film and) 333. 263. P 3.17 (carefully picking up the box containing his) 315. 249. P 2.59 (camera Phil made his way out of the store.) 315. 235. P 4.19 (He was now ready to shoot pictures with) 315. 221. P (his new camera. HIS new camera!) 315. 207. T 2.45 (Phil made his way carefully back home.) 333. 193. P 1.55 (The camera was placed in the wire basket in) 315. 179. P 0.79 (front on the bike. Phil took his time, avoiding) 315. 165. P 4.76 (most of the bumps and walking his bike) 315. 151. P (around the worst of them.) 315. 137. T 1.53 (When he got home he called the custom-) 333. 123. P 2.23 (ers on his list that he had scheduled for the) 315. 109. P 2.96 (next two days and told them he would not) 315. 95. P 4.53 (be coming on the regular day. He would) 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "21" 21 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 21) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 1.13 (catch them up during the weekend or the fol-) 72. 711. P 4.62 (lowing week. He then took his new pur-) 72. 697. P 2.79 (chase to his room, closed the door, laid on) 72. 683. P 1.93 (the bed with the box next to him and began) 72. 669. P (reading the instructions.) 72. 655. T 8.9 (The instructions were understandably) 90. 641. P 2.42 (brief. They were more of a sales pitch than) 72. 627. P 2.78 (instructions. After showing how to load the) 72. 613. P 3.34 (camera the instructions touted the camera\325s) 72. 599. P 2.88 (ease of use and the quality of pictures that) 72. 585. P (could be expected.) 72. 571. T 3.23 (Phil removed the camera from the box,) 90. 557. P 1.53 (loaded the black and white film according to) 72. 543. P 4.24 (the directions, then put the camera in the) 72. 529. P 3.29 (carrying case provided. He put the other 2) 72. 515. P 2.46 (rolls of film in the pouches provided in the) 72. 501. P 6.68 (camera carrying case. He was ready to) 72. 487. P (shoot his own pictures!) 72. 473. T 2.06 (Phil grabbed his notebook from the desk) 90. 459. P 1.95 (and went downstairs to find his mother. She) 72. 445. P 1.29 (was in the living room sewing the pockets in) 72. 431. P 2.92 (a pair of his jeans. He had somehow man-) 72. 417. P 3.56 (aged to put a hole in them last week and) 72. 403. P (had told his mother about it.) 72. 389. T 1.69 ("Mom, I bought a camera. I\325m going out) 90. 375. P 2. (to shoot some pictures. I\325ll be home in time) 72. 361. P (for supper," Phil told her.) 72. 347. T 5.2 (Phil\325s mother stopped her sewing and) 90. 333. P 5.1 (looked at Phil with a little concern. She) 72. 319. P 2.19 (knew better than to say anything about how) 72. 305. P 3.17 (he spent his money, he worked hard for it) 72. 291. P 1.68 (and it was his. She simply said, "I hope you) 72. 277. P 3. (got a good deal. Please try to be home on) 72. 263. P (time tonight.") 72. 249. T 2.3 (Phil smiled and said, "I did. And I will,) 90. 235. P 3.83 (promise." He walked over and gave her a) 72. 221. P 1.17 (quick kiss on the cheek. He then hurried out-) 72. 207. P (side.) 72. 193. T 4.45 (Phil wasted no time. He selected sub-) 90. 179. P 2.29 (jects the he thought would test the capabili-) 72. 165. P 4.45 (ties of the camera. He photographed dark) 72. 151. P 6.07 (subjects in a bright background, colorful) 72. 137. P 4.27 (storefronts, canopies, and anything else he) 72. 123. P 5.2 (thought might make an interesting photo-) 72. 109. P 1.67 (graph. After he took a photograph he logged) 72. 95. P 3.1 (each subject in his notebook. He noted the) 72. 81. P 3.01 (time the picture was taken and the subject.) 315. 711. P 1.71 (He had no idea of the shutter speed or aper-) 315. 697. P 7.39 (ture settings so he left those notations) 315. 683. P 2.34 (blank. He even made the entries of the pic-) 315. 669. P (tures he shot of Cathy Danis!) 315. 655. T 2. (He had been so intent on taking pictures) 333. 641. P 5.5 (and making notes that he hadn\325t noticed) 315. 627. P 1.97 (that he had made his way to her house. She) 315. 613. P 5.72 (was outside dressed in a halter top and) 315. 599. P 1.37 (shorts and was raking the lawn. He felt a lit-) 315. 585. P 2.96 (tle like a peeping Tom as he photographed) 315. 571. P 7.34 (her through the hedges surrounding the) 315. 557. P 2.01 (schoolyard adjacent to her parent\325s house. If) 315. 543. P 6.39 (she had seen him with his camera she) 315. 529. P 8.14 (would have immediately gone into the) 315. 515. P 8.34 (house. His heart was pounding as he) 315. 501. P 2.31 (snapped shot after shot. "I can\325t wait to see) 315. 487. P (how good these look!" he thought to himself.) 315. 473. T 2.88 (It didn\325t take long for him to shoot the) 333. 459. P 3.26 (three rolls of film. He made his way back) 315. 445. P 3.9 (home, placed his camera and notebook on) 315. 431. P 3.39 (his desk and went back downstairs. It was) 315. 417. P 2. (only 3:00 pm and he wanted to get the film) 315. 403. P (to Mr. Jenson before 5:00 pm, closing time.) 315. 389. T 1.04 (He couldn\325t find his mom so he left her a) 333. 375. P 2.84 (note and placed it on the kitchen table. He) 315. 361. P 1.41 (took his bike out of the garage and made his) 315. 347. P 1.41 (way to the ShutterBug to turn the film in for) 315. 333. P 4.34 (processing. He arrived well before closing) 315. 319. P 2.97 (and went to the back of the store with the) 315. 305. P (three rolls of film.) 315. 291. T 4.59 ("Back so soon?" said Mr. Jenson sur-) 333. 277. P 2.02 (prised. "I would have thought it would have) 315. 263. P 6.5 (taken you another ten minutes to shoot) 315. 249. P (three rolls of film!" he said jokingly.) 315. 235. T 2.31 (Phil laughed too and said, "Well I am a) 333. 221. P 5.29 (little anxious to see how these turn out.) 315. 207. P (Will they be ready tomorrow?") 315. 193. T 3.86 (Mr. Jenson looked at the clock on the) 333. 179. P 1.02 (wall and said, "Tell you what Phil. I\325ll devel-) 315. 165. P 3.53 (op the negatives tonight and print the pic-) 315. 151. P 7.27 (tures tomorrow. They\325ll be ready about) 315. 137. P (noon. How\325s that?") 315. 123. T 4.8 ("Oh, that would be great Mr. Jenson!) 333. 109. P (Thanks!") 315. 95. T 2.29 (Phil went home and for the second time) 333. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "22" 22 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 22) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.62 (in three days hardly paid attention to sup-) 72. 711. P 3.86 (per. He was thinking about how great the) 72. 697. P 1.67 (pictures were going to be, how clear the im-) 72. 683. P 5.91 (ages were going to look, and yes, how) 72. 669. P (Cathy was going to look raking her lawn.) 72. 655. T 1.67 (The hours crept by and Phil hardly slept.) 90. 641. P 3.39 (The next day was no better. Noon seemed) 72. 627. P 2.91 (to take an eternity to arrive. Shortly before) 72. 613. P 1.42 (noon Phil headed out to pick up his pictures.) 72. 599. P 4. (He arrived at the ShutterBug just at noon) 72. 585. P (and went to see Mr. Jenson.) 72. 571. T 5.85 ("Are the pictures ready Mr. Jenson?") 90. 557. P (Phil asked excitedly.) 72. 543. T 5.26 ("Yes they are Phil. Came out of the) 90. 529. P 2.01 (printer just a little while ago," he said, indi-) 72. 515. P 1.84 (cating a complicated looking piece of equip-) 72. 501. P 2.89 (ment further back in the store. "I put them) 72. 487. P 1.34 (into their packages a few minutes ago. I pur-) 72. 473. P 5.15 (posely didn\325t look at them as they were) 72. 459. P 3.86 (coming out of the machine. Care to share) 72. 445. P (them with me?" he asked.) 72. 431. T 1.1 (Phil thought of the pictures of Cathy. Not) 90. 417. P 3.48 (that they were anything to be ashamed of,) 72. 403. P 1.79 (he just didn\325t want anyone to know he liked) 72. 389. P 2.09 (her. "Uh," Phil began, "I\325d rather not if you) 72. 375. P (don\325t mind. Not this time.") 72. 361. T 4.47 (Mr. Jenson smiled and said, "I under-) 90. 347. P 3.67 (stand. Your first pictures and you want to) 72. 333. P 1.43 (look at them yourself first. Don\325t blame you.) 72. 319. P 3.38 (I did the same thing with my first camera) 72. 305. P 4.1 (too!" He rang up the sale and placed the) 72. 291. P 5.06 (three envelopes of pictures into a yellow) 72. 277. P 4.28 (plastic bag with the ShutterBug\325s logo on) 72. 263. P 3.71 (the side. He handed this to Phil and said,) 72. 249. P ("Hope they turned out alright.") 72. 235. T 4. (Phil was relieved at not having to ex-) 90. 221. P 4.52 (plain any further and said, "Thanks again) 72. 207. P 1.13 (Mr. Jenson. I\325ll stop back and show you how) 72. 193. P 2.92 (they turned out." Mr Jenson smiled at that,) 72. 179. P (and Phil quickly made his way out the door.) 72. 165. T 2.34 (He raced home and went quickly inside.) 90. 151. P 2.55 (His mother was on the phone and he heard) 72. 137. P 3.85 (her say, "Oh, wait a minute he just came) 72. 123. P 0.81 (home. "Phil," she called to him, "it\325s Mr. Ri-) 72. 109. P (ley from school. He wants to talk to you.") 72. 95. T 1.78 (Surprised, Phil went into the living room) 90. 81. P 3.73 (and picked up the telephone receiver from) 315. 711. P 4.34 (the table where his mother had placed it.) 315. 697. P 1.58 ("Hello Mr. Riley," Phil said. "What can I do) 315. 683. P (for you?") 315. 669. T 0.91 ("Phil," he heard Mr. Riley begin, "I want-) 333. 655. P 2.59 (ed to let you know what I found out about) 315. 641. P 3.69 (your camera." Mr. Riley continued as Phil) 315. 627. P 1.96 (took the packages of pictures out of the bag) 315. 613. P (and opened one.) 315. 599. T 2.73 ("The name seemed familiar to me but I) 333. 585. P 4.04 (couldn\325t place it," Mr. Riley continued. "I) 315. 571. P 5.63 (looked in the literature I have here and) 315. 557. P 1.48 (couldn\325t find any reference to the Follis 138.) 315. 543. P 4.67 (After looking through everything I had, I) 315. 529. P 1.3 (gave up and was going to call you to let you) 315. 515. P 1.59 (know. Then this morning I was in the teach-) 315. 501. P 1.34 (ers lounge having a cup of coffee when Mrs.) 315. 487. P 1.72 (Landry, the biology teacher, came in and sat) 315. 473. P 1.6 (down next to me. She looked at the piece of) 315. 459. P 1.47 (paper I had written the name of your camera) 315. 445. P (on and began to laugh.") 315. 431. T 1.38 (Phil was taking one set of pictures out of) 333. 417. P 2.58 (it\325s package as Mr. Riley explained, "When) 315. 403. P 2.71 (I asked her what was so funny she pointed) 315. 389. P 2.34 (at the paper in front of me and said, \325That!) 315. 375. P 1.23 (The fools 138!\325 and she continued chuckling.) 315. 361. P 3.67 (That\325s when it hit me. I remembered why) 315. 347. P 1.24 (the name sounded familiar to me. Phil, Follis) 315. 333. P (in Latin means fool!") 315. 319. T 3. (Phil had stopped hearing. He was look-) 333. 305. P 2. (ing at the pictures he had taken in disbelief.) 315. 291. P 2.06 (The images were sharp and clear, the colors) 315. 277. P 5.45 (were perfect, they looked as though you) 315. 263. P 2.21 (could reach in and touch the subject so real) 315. 249. P (were they.) 315. 235. T 2.13 (He looked at the first picture of a beach) 333. 221. P 5.96 (with the ocean lapping at the sand. He) 315. 207. P 1.68 (looked at picture after picture. Here a winter) 315. 193. P 5.74 (snow scene with dunes disappearing into) 315. 179. P 4.34 (the distance. Another showed a primeval) 315. 165. P 3.79 (forest scene. Picture after picture were the) 315. 151. P 4.05 (same as those he had seen in the camera) 315. 137. P (store where he had purchased his camera.) 315. 123. T ("Phil are you listening?" it was Mr. Riley.) 333. 109. T 5.11 ("Uh, thanks for the information," Phil) 333. 95. P 2.57 (said absently. "I have to make a call now,") 315. 81. P FMENDPAGE %%Page: "23" 23 FMBEGINPAGE 0 F 0 X (October 1989) 72. 748. T (page 23) 289.75 36. T (Volume I, Issue 2) 466.11 748. T 7 F 3.09 (and he hung up the receiver. He looked at) 72. 711. P 1.88 (the plastic bag the pictures had come in and) 72. 697. P (called the number printed on the side.) 72. 683. T 2.48 (The phone at the other end rang several) 90. 669. P 5.1 (time before the voice of Mr. Jenson an-) 72. 655. P 9.86 (swered with, "ShutterBug, Dan Jenson) 72. 641. P (here.") 72. 627. T 4.22 ("Mr. Jenson," Phil began, "this is Phil) 90. 613. P 5.01 (Davis. Was there any problem processing) 72. 599. P 0.96 (the pictures I dropped off. I mean, could they) 72. 585. P (have gotten mixed up with anyone else\325s?") 72. 571. T 1.55 (The was a pause from the other end then) 90. 557. P 2.88 (Mr. Jenson replied, "No, I don\325t believe so) 72. 543. P 3.05 (Phil. I processed them myself. As a matter) 72. 529. P 1.05 (of fact yours was the only film we developed) 72. 515. P 2.46 (yesterday. No, there was no mix up. Why,) 72. 501. P (is there a problem?") 72. 487. T 2.09 (Phil just sat there for a second and said,) 90. 473. P ("No, I guess not. Thanks," and he hung up.) 72. 459. T 3. (Phil looked at the pictures again. These) 90. 445. P 3.07 (were the same pictures that the storekeeper) 72. 431. P 2.15 (had showed him. Every one! He opened the) 72. 417. P 3.72 (next package and looked at the pictures it) 72. 403. P 4.84 (contained. The same thing. Each picture) 72. 389. P 3.91 (was an exact duplicate of the pictures the) 72. 375. P 6.21 (strange storekeeper had shown him. The) 72. 361. P 3.67 (colors were perfect, the images almost too) 72. 347. P (real.) 72. 333. T 3.29 (He opened the last package and looked) 90. 319. P 4.23 (at another duplicate set of pictures. These) 72. 305. P 2.29 (were in black and white but were otherwise) 72. 291. P 3.51 (identical. The same pictures on three rolls.) 72. 277. P 3.4 (Nowhere were the pictures he had actually) 72. 263. P (taken.) 72. 249. T 2.28 (He quickly placed the pictures back into) 90. 235. P 5.74 (their envelopes and placed the envelopes) 72. 221. P 1.76 (back into the plastic bag. Almost running he) 72. 207. P 5.75 (went to the garage to get his bike. He) 72. 193. P 2.67 (passed his mother in the kitchen and didn\325t) 72. 179. P (say a word to her.) 72. 165. T 2.29 (Phil got on his bike and headed back to) 90. 151. P 3.72 (the camera store where he had bought his) 72. 137. P 1.26 (camera. Parking his bike in front he was sur-) 315. 711. P 6.06 (prised to find the picture window again) 315. 697. P 4.51 (streaked with grime and the garish letters) 315. 683. P 2.07 (announcing ARCADE again on the window.) 315. 669. P 2.3 (He walked slowly to the door and rubbed a) 315. 655. P 1.04 (little of the dirt off in a circular motion so he) 315. 641. P 2.79 (could peer inside. The counters inside were) 315. 627. P 4.78 (covered with dust, litter was scattered on) 315. 613. P (the floor.) 315. 599. T 3.34 (As he leaned on the glass of the door,) 333. 585. P 3.01 (the door opened a fraction. He looked ner-) 315. 571. P 2.1 (vously around then opened the door the rest) 315. 557. P 1.92 (of the way and went inside. The air smelled) 315. 543. P 5.38 (musty. He made his way to the counter) 315. 529. P 2.2 (where he had purchased his camera and no-) 315. 515. P 5.08 (ticed pictures scattered across the counter) 315. 501. P (top.) 315. 487. T 5.48 (He looked at them one by one. The) 333. 473. P 3.45 (beach, the dunes, the forest, the storekeep-) 315. 459. P 2.93 (er! He looked at that last one a long time.) 315. 445. P 2.53 (As he watched, the image of the storekeep-) 315. 431. P (er moved and said,) 315. 417. T 2.41 ("I guaranteed that the pictures you took,) 333. 403. P 2.15 (regardless of film type used, would turn out) 315. 389. P 6.03 (exactly like these." Then the storekeeper) 315. 375. P 5.33 (laughed. That laugh sent chills up Phil\325s) 315. 361. P 1.24 (spine. "Welcome to the world of the Follis.") 315. 347. P 7.27 (The storekeeper laughed again. As Phil) 315. 333. P 4.34 (watched, the raft that the storekeeper was) 315. 319. P 3.95 (resting on floated beyond the boundary of) 315. 305. P (the picture and could no longer be seen.) 315. 291. T 4.14 (Phil continued to hear the storekeepers) 333. 277. P (laughter as he made his way to the door.) 315. 263. T 1 F 2.69 (Gene Smith currently works for Syracuse University) 315. 236. P 3.52 (and, if there is such a thing, is a "true Gemini.") 315. 224. P 1.61 (Right now he works two jobs and runs his own busi-) 315. 212. P 2.81 (ness -- all at the same time. His interests include) 315. 200. P 5.21 (astronomy, carpentry, music \050frustrated musician\051,) 315. 188. P 6.28 (gardening, geology, the occult, classic eroticsm,) 315. 176. P 5.28 (thunderstorms, and anything he hasn\325t done yet.) 315. 164. P 2.72 (Gene was born on June 15, 1952, and lives in the) 315. 152. P (country.) 315. 140. T 315. 252. 540. 252. 2 L 0 H N 315. 135. 540. 135. 2 L N FMENDPAGE %%Trailer %%Pages: 23 1 %%DocumentFonts: Times-Bold %%+ Times-Italic %%+ Times-Roman %%+ Courier %%+ Times-BoldItalic