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Subject: I remember it clear as yesterday...
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 00:44:34 GMT

In article ,
Josh Brandt  wrote:
>right open, like a polecat trap with the batteries in backward, and bless my
>soul if she weren't looking right straight at me...
>

Her eyes, it was like they was lookin' straight through me.  I stood there,
a-frozen in place.  I couldn't move a'tall.  She stood up, still standing in
that tube of glowin' bubblin' liquid, and held two arms out to me.

"James Aaron Culpepper," she said, and scared the bejeezus right outta me. 
I'm-a sittin' there, thinkin' ta myself <>

"James Aaron Culpepper," she said again.  "I have a gift for you."

I stood there dumb-founded.  Then, suddenly, it seemed.  I found my voice. 
"Wh-wh-what is it?" I asked.

"Come here," she said, and beckoned with another one of her arms.  I took a
step forward, and suddenly, I was surrounded by a golden light.  It was
kinda like what Grandma Whittaker described after her near-death exper'nce,
but diff'rnt.  As I stood there, trying to step closer ta the woman, there
was a blinding flash of purple light.

Next thing Ah know'd, I'm-a floatin' in the air.  Flying over the treetops
on the east side of Pa's farm.  I could see the whole town from up there. 
Off ta my left was Earl's Shell.  Joey, did I ever tell ya the story of
Earl's shell?  No?  It's like this, one day, one of them giant land snail's
came oozing inta town.  The townsfolk just about flipped.  Sheriff Tucker
dang near called out the nash'nul guard.  Then, just as it was about to ooze
up all over the courthouse, it just up and keeled over, daid.

Nobody went near the thing for three days, but then ole Crazy Earl took it
into his head that he'd live inside that big shell.  He got himself a
truckload of salt, and poured it all over that snail.  Waited a couple of
days for the snail ta just dissolve, then he set up house.  Strangest thing
I ever seen in my life.

But anyways, there I found myself zoomin' through the sky, like some kinda
aeroplane.  It was the most incredible thing I'd ever done in my life.  I
was gettin ready to head over to Tommy's house to show him what I could do,
when suddenly...
-- 
ONCE: (adv.) Enough.    
				- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_


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