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Robert Young is a master at a certain type of story that blends speculative and starkly realistic fiction, for example the grim tale below concerning a man who listens to commands and does unpleasant things... PRNDLL by ROBERT F. YOUNG Pick up girl! The command shocked Keller. It had been uttered in a guttural voice whose seeming source was his own mind. He had just got on NYS 90 and was heading home after a Saturday stint at the office. His dashboard clock registered 5:23 P.M. He saw how white his knuckles had become, and he forced himself to relax his grip on the wheel. Instantly his hands began to tremble. He became aware of a faint buzzing in his ears. Beyond the hood of his Caprice the throughway unrolled into pale-gold distances beneath a pale-blue October sky, late-afternoon traffic flowing smoothly on either side of the attenuated island of the mall. Pick up girl! This time, the command was followed by pain — a blinding pain that exploded in Keller's mind like a fragmentation grenade made of crimson glass, then diminished to red mist. He nearly lost control of the Caprice. Gradually the mist dispersed. He heard the voice again: That was sample |
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