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Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

R. A. Lafferty

Book Overview: 

The place called Sodom was bad enough. But right down the road was the other town--and that was even worse!

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Might as well take them all."

"Only people—God give me strength!—only people, Manuel."

"How about little people?"

"Children, yes. That has been explained to you."

"Little people. Not children, little people."

"If they are people, take them."

"How big they have to be?"

"It doesn't make any difference how big they are. If they are people, take them."

That is where the damage was done.

The official had given a snap judgement, and it led to disaster. It was not his fault. The instructions are not clear. Nowhere in all the verbiage does it say how big they have to be to be counted as people.

MANUEL took Mula and went to work. His sector was the Santa Magdalena, a scrap of bald-headed and desolate mountains, steep but not high, and so torrid in the afternoons that it was said that the old lava sometimes began to writhe and flow again from the sun's heat al. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A very interesting little story

Wonderfully amusing, off the wall Rip Van Winkle story of an unusual census worker. And aliens?

A humble and seemingly dim-witted man is tasked with taking a census for his small local Texas town. He cryptically asks his authorities if he wants him to take the names of all the people (even the small people) and is told to only take the names of the people living in the town. What follows is an

Neil Gaiman recently listed R.A. Lafferty as an author he particularly enjoyed so of course I looked him up. This short story was the first thing I found. It is very short, but also very entertaining. Colorful characters, unexpected catastrophes, solid punch line. What more could a short story need?

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