标题: 《The Goat Cutter》作者： - Jay Lake【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-11-30 14:50 标题: 《The Goat Cutter》作者： - Jay Lake【EPUB】 The Goat Cutter By Jay Lake * * * * Jay lake lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family and their books. In 2004 his short stories appeared in dozens of markets, including Asimov′s, Chiaroscuro, Postscripts and Realms of Fantasy. His collection Greetings from Lake Wu was a Locus Recommended book for 2003 and his follow-up collection, Dogs in the Moonlight, is available from Prime Books. About "The Goat Cutter", Lake explains: "Everything in this story is true in one form or another, except that the Bible bus sits a bit up the road from my mother′s old farm instead of on the middle of her property. "While I never personally met the Devil in the Texas woods, I′m pretty sure I heard him shouting on moonless nights. Life in Caldwell County can be, if anything, stranger than fiction." * * * * THE devil lives in Houston by the ship channel in a high-rise apartment fifty-seven stories up. They say he′s got cowhide sofas and a pinball machine and a telescope in there that can see past the oil refineries and across Pasadena all the way to the Pope in