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    The Place Where Chicago Was
    The Place Where Chicago Was
    The Place Where Chicago Was
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    The Place Where Chicago Was

    By Jim Harmon

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    Well, they finally got rid of war. For the first time there was peace on Earth—since the only possible victims were the killers themselves!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEndymion Press
    Release dateSep 27, 2016
    ISBN9781531298838
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      The Place Where Chicago Was - Jim Harmon

      THE PLACE WHERE CHICAGO WAS

      ..................

      Jim Harmon

      ENDYMION PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review or connect with the author.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Jim Harmon

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

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      IT WAS LATE DECEMBER OF 1983. Abe Danniels knew that the streets and sidewalks of Jersey City moved under their own power and that half the families in America owned their own helicopters. He was pleased with these signs of progress. But he was sweating. He thought he was getting athlete’s foot instead of athletic legs from walking from the New Jersey coast to just outside of Marshall, Illinois.

      The heat was unbearable.

      The road shimmered before him in rows of sticky black ribbon, on which nothing moved. Nothing but him.

      He passed a signal post that said Caution—Slow in a gentle but commanding voice. He staggered on toward a reddish metallic square set on a thin column of bluish concrete. It was what they called a sign, he decided.

      Danniels drooped against the sign and fanned his face with his sweat-ringed straw cowboy hat. The thing seemed to have something to say about the mid-century novelist, James Jones, in short, terse words.

      The rim of the hat crumpled in his fist. He stood still and listened.

      There was a car coming.

      It would almost have to stop, he reasoned. A man couldn’t stand much of this Illinois winter heat. The driver might leave him to die on the road if he didn’t stop. Therefore he would stop.

      He jerked out the small pouch from the sash of his jeans. Inside the special plastic the powder was dry. He rubbed some between his hands briskly, to build up the static electricity, and massaged it into his hair.

      The metal of the Jones plaque was fairly shiny. Under the beating noon sun it cast a pale reflection back at Danniels. His hair looked a reasonably uniform white now.

      He started to draw the string on the pouch, then dipped his hand in and scooped his palm up to his mouth. He chewed on the stuff while he was securing the nearly flat bag in his sash. He swallowed the dough; the powder had been flour.

      Danniels took the hat from beneath his arm, set it to his head and at last faced the direction of the engine whine.

      The roof, hood and wheels moved over the curve of the horizon and Danniels saw that the car was a brandless classic which probably still had some of the original, indestructible

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