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Christine ached all over, but that was to be expected. She reached down to pat her tummy. Sore as hell, but even under the padding of the bandages, it seemed flat as a board.

"Got a mirror, Allie?"

Allie reached into her purse, extracted a compact, opened it, handed it to her.

Christine started at what she saw. Purplish black bruises all over her cheeks and beneath her chin. Loose skin hanging everywhere.

"Don't worry about it, hon," Allie assured her. "The marks will be gone in a week or two, and then Alex'll tighten things back up".

Allie laughed. "You should see the Count!" she said.

"No thanks," Christine said, "I'd rather remember him as he was, laying there on the floor like a mound of slime jello."

Allie laughed again. "Better than that, hon," she said. "These days, he's looking like the second coming of Orson Welles."

She shrugged. "Of course, you've gotta hand it to the guy, he is a survivor."

"How so?"

"Well, he's taken up with a certain blimpoid ex-actress rolling in dough from her twelfth divorce. A match made in heaven."

"Really?" Christine said.

"Sauce for the goose, hon," Allie told her. "Meat for the gander. She's already blown off fifteen pounds."


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About The Author

Norman Spinrad was born in New York City, on September 15, 1940. Except for a brief period in Kingston, New York, he spent his entire childhood and adolescence in the Bronx. In 1957, he entered the College of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. He decided not to attend law school but pursue a writing career instead. He rented a cheap apartment in the East Village, secured part-time employment in a friend's leather shop, wrote a first novel which has never been published and about a dozen short stories, finally making his first sale to Analog in 1962.

Today he is the author of numerous novels, countless short stories, and the editor of SAVE THE WORLD, a web-zine found at:
http://www.save-the-world.com

His life's work is to take this commercial science fiction genre and turn it into something else somehow, write works that transcended its commercial parameters works that could aspire to the literary company of Burroughs and Mailer and Kerouac, that would open a new Way....

For more information on Norman Spinrad visit him on the Web at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/normanspinrad

Be sure to look for titles from Norman Spinrad at your favorite bookstore.

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