Pulp literature -- Authorship -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Time travel -- Fiction
We all waved once, just to be polite, and then lost all interest. We
turned on Joey to see if we could get the price of that lunch out of
him, and we kidded Jinx about the lousy stories he picked up. Maybe it
was because some of us felt a little self-conscious. I know I glanced
over my shoulder and felt guilty when I noticed Dugan standing on the
corner. He was watching us intently and adjusting his glasses with both
hands.
Then I stopped haggling with Joey and turned around because--well,
because it occurred to me that cameras of the Twenty-third Century
could be so small you couldn't see them at that distance. All that
flash and glitter couldn't be coming just from Dugan's glasses. Yes,
brother, I turned around while Gray's _Elegy_ went thrumming through my
head.
It could be Belcher or Jinx or Mallison, or the little guy with the
pipe, but I don't think so. I've got a pretty good idea who it is,
because something suddenly occurred to me, I turned around to give
Dugan a nice full-face and I waved....
Because one of those scraps of paper I thought had been blown in my
window was marked very peculiarly in red: _Load Only in Total Darkness.
Expires Dec. 18, 2241._
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