The Metallic Muse
“It was a town out of a history book—the kind of town some people thought no longer existed.But hundreds of such towns survived, and John Allen encountered them often, hidden away in remote valleys or rising up unexpectedly amidst rolling farm lands, like the town of Gwinn Center, Kansas. They were, all of them, much alike that even their differences seemed similar.Gwinn Center had other differences.The streets were deserted. The clumsy ground vehicles that crept along the twisting black ribbon ...of roadway miles beyond the town were headed south, running away. Stretched across the rich green of the cultivated fields was a wavering line of dots. As Allen slanted his plane downward the dots enlarged and became men who edged forward doggedly, holding weapons at the ready.The town was not completely abandoned. As Allen circled to pick out a landing place he saw a man dart from one of the commercial buildings, run at top speed along the center of a street, and with a final, furtive glance over his shoulder, disappear into a house.MoreLess
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