"Dorr, James S - The Winning" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dorr James S)

"Here!" he shouted. He threw the money as hard as he could, up, into the air. Watched as the bills peeled off, catching the light as the river wind took them, whirlwinding higher.

He thought of the river. Of water and death. Of shadows melting back into the darkness.

Of flecks of paper, one or two caught in the bridge's cables, the rest of them blowing out to the ocean, ever upward, until he could no longer tell them apart from the distant stars.

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James S. Dorr is a past Anthony and Darrell (for fiction set in the U.S. Mid-South) short story finalist as well as the winner of last year's Best of the Web 1998 award. Some of the places his more than 120 stories and novelettes have appeared include _Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine_, _New Mystery_, and _The Strand_, along with a number of horror, fantasy, and science fiction anthologies and magazines.

"The Winning" first appeared in the Spring, 1994 issue of _Over My Dead Body_, Cheri Jung, Publisher, P.O. Box 1778, Auburn, WA 98071-1778.