The Sorcerer's House by Gene Wolfe

Author:Gene Wolfe
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy - General, Magic, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Gene - Prose & Criticism, Fantasy fiction, Ex-convicts, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Wolfe, Fantasy, Abandoned houses, Epistolary fiction, Supernatural, General, Science Fiction And Fantasy
ISBN: 9780765324580
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2010-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

PS: The old man returned as I was about to seal this envelope. He states that Madame Orizia vanished only a moment or two after I left. He was walking ahead of her, and when he looked behind him she was no longer there. Winker seems to have vanished as well, although her gown and shoes are in the bedroom closet. I will recount the reading of the will tomorrow, if I find time.

Number 21

WHO WAS HE?

Dear Shell:

My life is becoming very interesting indeed, and that from every angle: money, sex, and whatever else might be specified. For one thing, I have never been present before while someone held a gun on someone else. That happened last night, and the someone else was my brother George. It could not happen to a nicer guy--I feel certain you know what I mean.

First I ought to say that I have seen my parole officer. He is overloaded, as I have been told they all are, and bought into everything I told him. I wore a get-the-money suit (dove gray with a navy blue pinstripe) and showed him a paycheck, gave him my address for the second time, and the number of my new cell telephone. The entire interview was over in five minutes.

I have founded my own little firm, you see. I call it A Plus Tutors. Our president is Henry Parkhill. (I know you would like him, Shell. You might recognize him as well.) Baxter Dunn is an employee, and good old Hank signs the checks. There is a FICA deduction and withholding for the IRS--the whole nine yards, as Lou would say.

Now the big news, and this is all straight. A kindly old gentleman called Alexander Skotos has left me a nice piece of real estate. Does that name ring bells with you? Skotos is Greek, so he would be Greek or at least look Greek enough to pass. I have been rummaging through every last memory I can turn up, and I have not found a Skotos or anyone who owed me and might use that name. Ask around, please. I could handle everything here much better if only I knew who Skotos really was.

You have been waiting for the sex, if I know you. The problem is telling you so that you will believe it. As I told you in my last, I have a Japanese girlfriend and an American girlfriend now. The Japanese girl is kitten-cute; I could tuck her under my arm and carry her around all day. Slender, sweet, submissive--and under all of that, very, very smart.

The American is, at a guess, somewhere between thirty and thirty-five, a hundred and fifty pounds, and about five foot nine. Roundhouse curves in all the right places. She is a widow and has been around. (At first I thought she might be sleeping with her boss.) Good face, great smile, brown hair with no dye in it. (I have poked around in her medicine cabinet and so on.)

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