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    The Animated Pinup
    The Animated Pinup
    The Animated Pinup
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    The Animated Pinup

    By Lewis Parker

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Animated Pinup - Lewis Parker

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Animated Pinup, by Lewis Parker

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      Title: The Animated Pinup

      Author: Lewis Parker

      Release Date: May 12, 2010 [EBook #32345]

      Language: English

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      The Animated Pinup

      By Lewis Parker

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy July 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      You're not expected to believe this story since it's the kind of thing that science calls impossible. But anyway, she happened. Who? Why—

      To make it clear how normal everything was when the evening started out, I'll let you in at the time Willy phoned me. I was in my apartment with a lady from down the hall....

      I had asked her what she liked and she'd purred, You. I had asked her with soda or gingerale and she'd said, Straight, so I'd obliged and poured myself a triple too and sank into the sofa beside her.

      The phone rang.

      Oh damn, she said.

      Your earlobes— I began.

      The phone, James.

      Your shoulders—

      James? Don't you think you'd better answer it?

      So I sighed and handed her the glass and told her not to hold it till I got back or she'd melt the ice. I crossed the room to the telephone.

      City morgue, I said.

      Uh—unh—

      Hullo Willy, I said, recognizing the stammer.

      While he gulped and stuttered a couple more times I threw a kiss to the lady. She failed to throw it back because she was placing a bet with herself that Willy was short for Wilhelmina.

      Willy straightened his tongue out. Jim, I've got to see you.

      Now Willy was a nervous little guy from faulty thyroid but neurotic in a bearable way. He sounded even more upset than he usually did. I didn't particularly like him, but he was a topflight illustrator and I liked the way he drew women, and besides I'd been trying for a year to tag him for

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