Slow Tuesday Night, by R.A. Lafferty

[mjzee]

I first read the short story "Slow Tuesday Night," by R.A. Lafferty, in high school. I am amazed, astonished really, by how well he predicted our current reality, almost 50 years later (the story was first published in 1965). Not a week goes by without my reflecting on this story. He has kind of a knotty writing style, but you'll get it the longer you read, and the story itself was only 9 pages in paperback. Ignore the introduction, which was tacked on by the web poster.

Slow Tuesday Night

[Stefan Wood]

Lafferty was a fantastic writer. Past Master is a classic, as is Fourth Mansions, the latter being one of the best fantasy/sci fi/whatever genre novels I have ever read. There was no one who could write like him.