Short Stories

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas
—R. A. Lafferty


  •   · Excerpt    
      "Manuel shouldn't have been employed as a census taker. He wasn't qualified. He couldn't read a map. He didn't know what a map was. And he only grinned when they told him that North was at the top. He knew better. But he did write a nice round hand — like a boy's hand. He did know Spanish, and enough English. For the sector that was assigned to him, he would not need a map. He knew it better than anyone else, certainly better than any mapmaker."  —R. A. Lafferty



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