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    Brown John's Body
    Brown John's Body
    Brown John's Body
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    Brown John's Body

    By Winston K. Marks

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Brown John's Body - Winston K. Marks

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Brown John's Body, by Winston Marks

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Brown John's Body

      Author: Winston Marks

      Release Date: April 21, 2010 [EBook #32076]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Brown John's Body

      by

      Winston Marks

      Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible. So he lived alone in his big cash-vault. Alone, except for John....

      rd Neff dropped a thin bundle of currency into the $100 bill drawer of the flat-top desk and kicked the drawer shut with a dusty boot.

      He flicked the drip from his hooked nose, which was chronically irritated by the wheat dust of the warehouse, then he wiped his fingers down the leg of his soiled denims. Across the 12 X 12, windowless room John stirred awake from the noise and began nosing in the debris of his filthy cage.

      Time for supper, John? Neff tugged at the twine at his belt and examined his $3 watch. He pinched a dozen grains of wheat from a two-pound coffee can and let them sift through the wires of the cage. John pounced on the grain hungrily.

      Wait a minute! What do you say, dammit? Neff's hand reached for the marshmallow-toasting fork that hung from a hook on the wall. He touched the points, filed needle sharp. What do you say? he repeated, twanging the tines like a tuning fork.

      John skittered to the far corner, tearing new holes in the old newspaper with frantic claws. Cowering against the wires he spat half-chewed flecks of wheat trying to say the magic words

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