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- Herausgeber: Wildside Press
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
He picked up the radio for a bargain price at a pawn shop. But it only played death and destruction! A classic fantasy in the Twilight Zone style by the King of Gonzo!
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2001
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
TURNING OFF, by Larry Tritten
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Copyright © 1986 by Larry Tritten.
Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1986.
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
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TURNING OFF,by Larry Tritten
Because he was unable to resist an authentic bargain, Mandel was quick to notice the handsome FM-AM radio with a five-dollar price tag appended the day it appeared in the window of the pawn shop he passed each morning on his way to work. Since he had recently swept his own radio off an end table and smashed it beyond repair while practicing solitary entrechats in his tiny, cramped studio apartment, he went into the pawn shop to have a look at the machine.
The man behind the counter was small and hairless, with the exception of great ursine eyebrows lurking above a carefully premeditated blank stare. Driving a fistful of knuckles into a massaging palm, he squandered a lavish smile and said, “May I help you?”
Fearing that he was about to be assaulted with a salvo of professional high-pressure sales talk, Mandel muttered, “Just looking,” darted a furtive glance around the glittering confines of the shop and took up an oblique position at the far end of the counter, where he pretended to study with mild interest a display of old-fashioned jeweled stickpins. But shortly he braced himself for encounter, sidled back toward the clerk, and asked candidly, “What’s wrong with the five-dollar radio?”
Eyebrows quailing, the man snapped, “Something should be wrong with a good buy?”
“It must be a seventy-dollar piece,” Mandel pointed out suspiciously.
“Seventy-five, and you can check. Also, there’s nothing wrong, too. A buy is a buy. Isn’t it?”
“I don’t know,” Mandel hedged.
