"Howard Waldrop - The Ugly Chickens" - читать интересную книгу автора (Waldrop Howard)

Mississippi or Memphis. Make it Jackson, it's closer. I'll get receipts!
I'll be famous. Courtney will be famous. You'll even be famous! This
university will make even more money! I'll pay you back. Give me
some paper. I gotta write Courtney a note. When's the next plane out?
Could you get Marie and Chuck to take over my classes Tuesday and
Wednesday? I'll try to be back Thursday unless something happens.
Courtney'll be back tomorrow, right? I'll call him from, well, wherever.
Do you have some coffee?."

And so on and so forth. Martha looked at me like I was crazy. But she
filled out the requisition anyway.

"What do I tell Kemejian when I ask him to sign these?"

"Martha, babe, sweetheart. Tell him I'll get his picture in Scientific
American."

"He doesn't read it."

"Nature, then!"

"I'll see what I can do," she said.




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The lady I had followed off the bus was named Jolyn (Smith) Jimson.
The story she told me was so weird that it had to be true. She knew
things only an expert, or someone with firsthand experience, could
know. I got names from her, and addresses, and directions, and tidbits
of information. Plus a year: 1927.
And a place: northern Mississippi.

I gave her my copy of the Greenway book. I told her I'd call her as soon
as I got back into town. I left her standing on the corner near the house
of the lady she cleaned for twice a week. Jolyn Jimson was in her
sixties.




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