Round Up Time
Unknown
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Description
Round-Up Time, by Chester Cohen, appeared in Infinity Science Fiction in June 1956. Giunta drew the illustration. The narrator earns his living as a street musician. He plays in the subway and on the streets despite his crutches. His wife plays the banjo beside him. On the Fourth of July in Central Park the pair fall in with a strange foreigner.
The stranger wears his jacket backwards. His socks are red, with yellow tassels. The magazine's blurb dubs him Queerpants. Cohen builds the tale out of the city's holiday crowd. The small-change world of buskers gives the story its ground. An odd companion turns an ordinary day into something no one can quite explain. The strangeness grows from one man's queer dress and manner, not from machines or planets.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |