![]() ![]() Her husband managed to drag himself out of the old easy chair and went to her. “There’s no change, not one day of peace.” “I don’t know what to do any more,” Leona said. 9-10Īfter Horton settles back into town he occasionally takes Jeffty out to the movies, etc., and recounts the awkward visits to his house afterwards, where the parents are obviously troubled by their strange son: ![]() To open a Sony television franchise in town, the first one. Jeffty was still five years old, not a day older.Īt twenty-two I came home for keeps. ![]() Now I knew there was something different about him, something wrong, something weird. I came back during the summers, to work at my Uncle Joe’s jewelry store. When I was ten, my grandfather died of old age and I was “a troublesome kid,” and they sent me off to military school, so I could be “taken in hand.” When I was seven, I came back home and went to find Jeffty, so we could play together. ![]() When I was that age, five years old, I was sent away to my Aunt Patricia’s home in Buffalo, New York for two years. During this, Horton talks about a young boy called Jeffty: Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison ( F&SF, July 1977) opens with a short “things aren’t what they used to be” passage about Clark Bars (a period confectionary) before going on to give a nostalgic account of the narrator Donny Horton’s childhood years. ![]()
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