While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

“My good, beloved wife, née Amy Lou Little, came to me from the girl pool. And there's an enchanting thought for lonely men--a pool of girls, teeming, warm, and deep.”

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“As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses. --"Tango”

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“You know," she said, "every so often I meet somebody like you, and I realize it's possible for some people to grow up in this country without ever seeing anything, without ever having anything happen to them.”

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“I hear he liked flowers pretty well." "Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him." --"Out, Brief Candle”

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“Women are entitled to a few things too," said his mother. "They got the vote and free access to the saloons," said Earl. "What do they want now--to enter the men's shot put?" "Common courtesy," said his mother.”

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“It was a hideous discovery for the stranger to make—that a man at the end of his days was capable of inflicting pain as the rawest, loudest youth. With so little time left, the stranger added one more item to his long, long list of regrets.”

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“One of her duties as a widow, she had learned, was to provide dramatic proof to the neighboring wives that, bad as their husbands might be at times, life without them would be worse.”

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“And a Merry Christmas to you." "Well, sir," he said, "it won't be long now, will it, until old soup-for-brains with the long white beard will come a-jingling over our housetops with goodies for us all." "No--Guess not." "A man who whips little reindeer is capable of anything," said Hackleman.”

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“As I told you," he said patiently, "I'm a student of sociology, which is the science of human society." There wasn't any point in telling her that the course was actually criminology. That might be offensive. There didn't seem to be much point in telling her anything, for that matter. "They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be.”

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