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    A Feast of Demons
    A Feast of Demons
    A Feast of Demons
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    A Feast of Demons

    By William Morrison

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    If you want my opinion, old Maxwell should have kept his big mouth shut ... and then El Greco could not have put Earth in a frame!

    A masterful tale of science fiction, told by a master storyteller, William Morrison!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2017
    ISBN9781537815107
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      A Feast of Demons - William Morrison

      A FEAST OF DEMONS

      William Morrison

      JOVIAN PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.

      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 © 2017 by William Morrison

      Published by Jovian Press

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      ISBN: 9781537815107

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

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      I

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      THAT YEAR WE WERE ALL Romans, and I have to tell you that I look awful in a toga and short sword, but not nearly as awful as the Greek.

      You go to one of the big schools and naturally you turn out for the Class Reunion. Why not? There’s money there, and good fellowship, and money, and the chance of a business contact that will do you some good. And money.

      Well, I wasn’t that fortunate—and you can say that again because it’s the story of my life: I wasn’t that fortunate.

      I didn’t go to Harvard, Princeton or Yale. I didn’t even go to Columbia, U.C.L.A. or the University of Chicago. What I went to was Old Ugly. Don’t lie to me—you never heard of Old Ugly, not even if I tell you it’s Oglethorpe A. & M. There were fifty-eight of us in my graduating class—that’s 1940—and exactly thirty turned up for the tenth reunion.

      Wouldn’t that turn your stomach? Only thirty Old Grads with enough loyalty and school feeling to show up for that tenth reunion and parade around in Roman togas and drink themselves silly and renew old school ties. And, out of that thirty, the ones that we all really wanted to see for sentimental reasons—I refer to Feinbarger of Feinbarger Shipping, Schroop of the S.S.K. Studios in Hollywood, Dixon of the National City Bank and so on—they didn’t show up at all. It was terribly disappointing to all of us, especially to me.

      In fact, at the feast that evening, I found myself

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