Author: Lowry Pei
Pages: 157
Overview:
This book is for all readers who write the book they hold in their hands, as they read. (Lowry Pei, January, 2000)
Excerpt - p.32
The next bead on the secret string comes when I was in my twenties. Your age.
I was sitting in a coach seat on the Southwest Limited, a train that used to run from Los Angeles to Chicago. It was 2:30 in the morning, and the train was standing in the station in a medium-sized town in the middle of Kansas. I looked down and saw this: the woman I had been talking with for several hours, earlier, stepped out onto the platform, took a few steps, and then began to glow through her clothing as if she was about to burst into flames.
The sight constricted my breath, and I watched in a state of terrible suspense, waiting for something worse that I was certain must be about to come. It crossed my mind that she was radioactive and would kill us all, that everyone on the platform and the train was already under death sentence from being in her presence.
