![]() ![]() ![]() Other customers are horrified and uncomfortable, Lori asks Phil what on EARTH is that noise, and the store manager tries to remove mother and son from the store. ![]() There are some VERY strange goings-on at Walmart on a normal day, and what Phil is about to walk into is anything but normal!Ĭhocolate in hand, Lori on the phone, and headed for checkout, Phil encounters what appears to be a really run-down, exhausted mother of a young tow-headed boy – the young lad strangely dressed in an almost Amish-style of clothing, and SHRIEKING… no, BELLOWING his lungs out over some candy he wants. ![]() Now, most of us have either seen the book The People of Walmart or had some first-hand experience with folks similar to the folks pictured in the aforesaid book so Phil going to Wally World should have given the reader pause right away. Phil Pendleton has been spending some serious quality time with his girlfriend, Lori, one ordinary weekend day, watching movies, eating a LOT of chocolate, and making sweet love when the chocolate runs out and Phil runs to the nearest Walmart to pick up some more. ![]()
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The children – perhaps that should be in quotations? – with whom this science fiction – horror? – novel are concerned are definitely lutescent, what with their glossily sheened skin and their beautiful golden eyes. “Of a yellowish colour” is the nuts and bolts definition, but in practice it is generally used to describe an overall golden glow, a tint rather than a deeper dye. Isn’t that a great word? I hardly ever run into it in fiction reading, though it’s a relatively common descriptor in botany and entomology. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham ~ 1957. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, this poetry is deeply personal and engages how the Gospel of Luke interacts with Jackson’s own story of being a Black man navigating the landscape of American life.ĭrew E. This collection of poems is an attempt to recover those voices that have so often been silenced. ![]() Throughout history the story of the Gospels has been co-opted by the powerful, and this is continuing to happen in our day. 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