Shades of Simon Gray (2012)
“In a town of fewer than two thousand, this was considered an epidemic. No one, least of all the people at the county health department, could figure out why the virus seemed, for the moment anyway, to be isolated in this tiny out-of-the-way town on the bank of the Delaware. The last town in New Jersey—as one reporter from The Star-Ledger had recently discovered while researching his story—to give up its crank phones back in the late 1950s. In his article, the reporter had called the town an ana...chronism, with its square park surrounded by stately Victorian homes, a park with dirt paths crisscrossing to opposite corners. X marked the spot. No one in town knew whether to be insulted or pleased by the reference. But they had little time to ponder such trivialities. They were far too worried about what was happening to them.
If the disease had been the only issue, they would have probably shrugged it off. But a few of the more astute citizens, like Clyde Zukowski, the custodian at the high school, and Marge Woodley, who ran the Laundromat on Main Street, and dozens of other concerned residents, had pieced together, from shreds of recent events, a tapestry of terror.MoreLess
If the disease had been the only issue, they would have probably shrugged it off. But a few of the more astute citizens, like Clyde Zukowski, the custodian at the high school, and Marge Woodley, who ran the Laundromat on Main Street, and dozens of other concerned residents, had pieced together, from shreds of recent events, a tapestry of terror.MoreLess
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