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    The Disappearance of Juliana and Invisible People: Two Fantasies
    The Disappearance of Juliana and Invisible People: Two Fantasies
    The Disappearance of Juliana and Invisible People: Two Fantasies
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    The Disappearance of Juliana and Invisible People: Two Fantasies

    By John Walters

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    In these two related tales, a young artist being pursued by her abusive stepfather and a middle-aged man fleeing a terrifying incident from his past are recruited to join a society of people linked together by telepathy which exists completely outside the awareness of the present world system.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAstaria Books
    Release dateNov 14, 2012
    ISBN9781536596663
    The Disappearance of Juliana and Invisible People: Two Fantasies
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      The Disappearance of Juliana and Invisible People - John Walters

      The Disappearance of Juliana

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      Your first clue comes from one of Greg’s old friends.  You find him in the musty basement of a bar, playing pool all alone.  He’s got a week-old growth of dark beard and his jeans and yellow sweatshirt look like they’ve never been washed.

      The room stinks of stale beer, cigarette smoke, dusty carpets, and B.O.  You gag and almost retch, but you force it down and continue steadfastly.

      I want to find Greg, you say.

      Whereupon he looks at you with a peculiar expression that is a bit more than just a mix of being half-drunk and half-stoned, carefully lines up the cue stick with the cue ball, and takes another shot.  "How did you find me?" he asks.

      It wasn’t difficult.  If no one’s found you before it’s probably because no one’s looking.

      He digests that while he takes a few more shots.  Finally he asks, Why do you want to find him?

      We were living together.  He left suddenly.  I miss him.  I want to know why he left.  It’s true, as far as it goes, though not the whole truth.  Your stepfather is stalking you, your mother is a silent presence halfway across the city who you know is constantly hoping you’ll call, your job is a boring dead end – you just have to get away, is all, and searching for Greg is a good excuse.

      You won’t find him.  At which point he buttons up and won’t say any more; he ignores you as if you aren’t even in the room.

      You ply him with cheap tequila.  When the bottle is almost down to the worm he breaks down.  They got him, he says.  The invisible people got him.

      What are you talking about?  Who are the invisible people?

      He mumbles something incoherent, then adds, They tried to get me, but I got away.  But they got him.

      It sounds like drunken nonsense, and you are tempted to dismiss it as such, but there is something about his expression that piques your interest.  It’s not fear, exactly - it’s something else.  Guilt?  Regret?

      Where were you?  Where were you when they got him?

      Without hesitation he answers, Rome.  Downtown Rome, near Villa Borghese.  We busked on the Spanish Steps.  They found me there.  He gazes at nothing in particular.  They take everything from you.  Everything. Then they make you invisible, like they are.

      But how did you escape?  And how can I find him?

      But he has passed out, his face sideways on the table between you, his mouth half-open, his tongue lolling.  He begins to snore.

      It sounds crazy.  But you were planning to cut loose and run anyway, and Rome seems as good a place to go as any.

      *     *     *

      He decided to search for Juliana not out of concern for her welfare but out of concern for his own.  She had long since ceased putting out, but

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