《Surprise Party 》作者：- James Patrick Kelly 【EPUB】

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PARTY by James Patrick Kelly * * * * This issue marks two milestones for frequent contributor James Patrick Kelly. “Surprise Party” is his twenty-fifth June story and his column “Son of Gallimaufry” comes on the tenth anniversary of the start of his “On The Net” column. Jim has a new short story collection coming out in August from Golden Gryphon Press. The Wreck of the Godspeed will include his five most recent June stories. * * * * When Mercedes Nunez woke up on the morning of her fifty-first birthday, there was a man in her head. At least she thought it was a man; his beam barely tickled her neurons. Her mindedness of him was as vague as that of some blurry loser in the back row of her high school class picture. Was this an underage fanboy with a taste for fallen celebs? A sleep-deprived college kid writing a paper on the pioneers of neurality? No—Mercedes’s fan base had been skewing geriatric. So, some fossil too feeble to spark enough mindedness to make her blink. He probably remembere