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THE SHADOW
Thomas M. Disch




Thomas M. Disch
(www.michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk/tmd.htm)
lives in New York City and in rural
Pennsylvania. He is a prominent science
fiction writer who occasionally writes fantasy
and horror. Though his early reputation was
based on the excellence of his SF novels
тАФThe Genocides (1965), The Puppies
of Terra (1966), and Camp
Concentration (1968)тАФhe has a broad
range and has had success outside the SF &
fantasy field as a poet, critic, and novelist.
On Wings of Song (1979) was his last
published SF novel. He published two horror
novels, The Businessman: A Tale of
Terror (1984) and The M.D.: A Horror
Story (1991). His most notable
contributions to American pop culture are his
childrenтАЩs books, The Brave Little
Toaster (1981) and The Brave Little
Toaster Goes to Mars, (1988), both of
which have been made into Disney films.
Though the Toaster books have the
earnestness appropriate to their audience,
usually Disch has a wicked sense of humor.
 тАЬThe Shadow,тАЭ which appeared in
F&SF, shows Disch in his dark satirical
mode. It is one of several good stories weтАЩve
seen recently dealing with AlzheimerтАЩs. Here
Disch gives this sensitive subject a treatment
reminiscent of the dark fantastic tales of
E.T.A. Hoffmann, something that shouldnтАЩt
work, but does!




Her neighbors said of Angie Sweetwater that she was afraid
of her own shadow, and in a way they were right, though not in the
way they meant and not in any way that AngieтАФor her neighbors,
for that matterтАФcould have understood. The thing is, Angie had a
nasty shadow, always thinking dark thoughts and itching to have a
life of its own away from Angie and the little brick house on Wythe
Lane where she lived all by herself. SheтАЩd lived there alone like that