Ok wordwind, enough. It's too late to badger now, your badgering won't help you none. Here is a complete Lafferty story, not a great Lafferty story, but certainly not his worse, which is a shame because most of Lafferty's worst stories are among his best. - [?]

No matter, for you Lafferty Lovers everywhere, ie...wordwind from Virginia, jackie from Kentucky, and modestgodess from a foreign country, here is a complete Lafferty short story "900 Grandmothers".

(Sorry, you'll have to click on the URL. I tried to edit it onto this post but a message kept coming up saying I was going to jail and then the computer would freeze up.)

Anyway enjoy the story and stay out of jail. -mw

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And now for the rest of you awaders who apparently still need a parent to encourage the course of what you read, here are the words of a critic...

SHADOWS (Horror Short Story Collection)

R. A. Lafferty looks at the world, not through a glass darkly, but through a glass splintered. Buried beneath a style that no one has been able to dissect with any real success without killing it, there is a melancholy and wry grin that is able to twist what is known (or possible) into something as yet unseen by the human mind.
There is humor to be sure.
But scattered throughout the punchlines, the stories, the asides that seem to smirk at that which has come before, there are implementations of what appear to be cast-off material that, when constructed on the foundation of a last line, contain more shudders than the best Techni-color vampire.
It's an aftereffect.
Like a razor that summons pain after the blood has been spilled.

_______________________________________ - Charles L. Grant