"Richard Wadholm - Orange Groves Out to the Horizon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wadholm Richard)

we keep toys in the closet.
Right next to the everyday bong is an old wagon, packed in tight with
cardboard tubes, wings of unpainted balsa wood. An old 12-volt car battery
for ignition, a launch stand, a set of solid fuel primers in a manila envelope.
The only thing missing is a half-loaf of bread in a paper bag, and a tin of
Vienna sausages. But my father will bring those.
WeтАЩll buy cokes off the ice cream truck that stops across the street from
the orange grove, and the driver will turn off his music just to hear us set off
our big J-30 two-stage rocket. See the knot of smoke fifty feet up as it pops
its payload stage.
My dad will squeeze my shoulder like heтАЩs hanging onto a luge. He
wonтАЩt even hear himself yelling, but I willтАФ тАЬGo, Butter! Go, Butter! Go,
Butter!тАЭ
WeтАЩll cup our hands against the sun to follow his progress into the hot,
blue, evening sky.
It will be great.




Like lots of writers, RICHARD WADHOLM spends his time trying to
figure how to survive on the tailings of a really cool hobby. His work has
appeared in AsimovтАЩs, ElectricStory.com, and Polyphony, as well as several
Best of the Year anthologies.
тАЬOrange Groves Out to the HorizonтАЭ began as a rumination on the
1960s, and on the romance of annihilation. The story took seed after the
imprisonment of a childhood friend, who really did make ricin in his office
coffee maker, although the friend is not the person in the story, and his
conversationтАФlike the 1960s itselfтАФis completely imaginary.




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