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Talking Books and Braille Editions National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United…

Bum’s Rush(an Underground story)by Andrew Vachss It all started when one of them spilled wine on Rajah. We were all together when it happened—Game Boys, out on the stalk. We all had our ID jackets, blue and white Celex. Every…

The Real Worldby Andrew Vachss This all started over one of the silly kinds of things kids get into. The kind of things they’re supposed to settle themselves. Maybe it was because we’re both fathers, Hank and me. That’s his…

Snuff Films – The “Urban Legend” I lit a smoke, buying time. “One way you can tell a country’s gone real evil…when the doctors are working the torture chambers. Telling the sadists how much a prisoner can take before he…

Proving Itby Andrew Vachss — 1 — Every place I’ve ever been, there’s pigeons. Even here. Prison. Rats with wings, convicts call them. That’s not ranking them, not really. You can’t disrespect rats. Nobody likes them, but they always keep…

GHOSTWRITER 1 I was born a gifted child. By the time I started school, everyone was telling me I could be anything I wanted, do anything I wanted to do. At home, too–I had very supportive, encouraging parents. But there was only…

Firemanby Andrew Vachss When I first fell in love with Connie, I was ashamed to tell her. But I knew it, right when it happened. She was eleven then, and I was twelve, almost thirteen. We were both in the…

GOIN’ DOWN SLOWby Andrew Vachss Saturday night, there’s always a woman in a red dress. Looking over at me when my hands are down—harp in one hand, mike in the other. I drop my hands when Big G takes a…

Witch Hunt by Andrew Vachss 1 The first time I heard a message, I couldn’t obey. I could hear it, but I was distant from it, the way I am from people talking. They think I can’t hear them, but…

Placebo appearances Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1989 reprinted in Great Tales of Madness & the Macabre (Galahad Books), 1990 Mysteries 91 (Librairie des Champs Ellyses), 1991 Mean Streets #2 (Australia), February 1991 Dark Horse Presents 5th Anniversary Special (graphic…