Six Stories
“I still can’t play the piano, but then, of course, I never could. That is a joke, and I make no apologies for it. In the first three months after my misadventure, I think that my ability to joke provided a slim but vital margin between sanity and some sort of nervous breakdown. Unless you’ve actually felt the tip of a pair of postmortem shears poking into your stomach, you don’t know what I mean.
Two weeks or so after my close call, a woman on Dupont Street called the Derry Police to complain o...f a “Foul Stink” coming from the house next door. That house belonged to a bachelor bank clerk named Walter Kerr. Police found the house empty … of human life, that is. they found over sixty snakes of different varieties. About half of them were dead-starvation and dehydration, but many were extremely lively … and extremely dangerous. Several were very rare, and one was of a species believed to have been extinct since mid-century, according to consulting zoologists.
Kerr failed to show up for work at Derry Community Bank on August 22, two days after I was bitten, one day after the story (“Paralyzed Man Escapes Deadly Autopsy,”MoreLess
Two weeks or so after my close call, a woman on Dupont Street called the Derry Police to complain o...f a “Foul Stink” coming from the house next door. That house belonged to a bachelor bank clerk named Walter Kerr. Police found the house empty … of human life, that is. they found over sixty snakes of different varieties. About half of them were dead-starvation and dehydration, but many were extremely lively … and extremely dangerous. Several were very rare, and one was of a species believed to have been extinct since mid-century, according to consulting zoologists.
Kerr failed to show up for work at Derry Community Bank on August 22, two days after I was bitten, one day after the story (“Paralyzed Man Escapes Deadly Autopsy,”MoreLess
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