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Games - William Ashman
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Games, by Katherine MacLean
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Title: Games
Author: Katherine MacLean
Illustrator: William Ashman
Release Date: March 27, 2010 [EBook #31798]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from the March 1953 issue of Galaxy. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
games
By KATHERINE MacLEAN
Illustrated by ASHMAN
It is a tough assignment for a child to know where a daydream ends and impossibility begins!
onny was playing by himself, which meant he was two tribes of Indians having a war.
Bang,
he muttered, firing an imaginary rifle. He decided that it was a time in history before the white people had sold the Indians any guns, and changed the rifle into a bow. "Wizzthunk," he substituted, mimicking from an Indian film on TV the graphic sound of an arrow striking flesh.
Oof.
He folded down onto the grass, moaning, Uhhhooh ...
and relaxing into defeat and death.
Want some chocolate milk, Ronny?
asked his mother's voice from the kitchen.
No, thanks,
he called back, climbing to his feet to be another man. Wizzthunk, wizzthunk,
he added to the flights of arrows as the best archer in the tribe. Last arrow. Wizzzz,
he said, missing one enemy for realism. He addressed another battling brave. Who has more arrows? They are coming too close. No time—I'll have to use my knife.
He drew the