Devore put on the choke-chain, I said. That she couldn'tafford to go all Yankee, refusing charity from Michael Noonan, author ofBeing Two, The Red-Shirt Man, and the soon-to-be-published Helen'sPromise. Bill hesitated, then added with one of those smiles we put onwhen we want others to know that we know we're saying something silly: Brenda Meserve says she's a witch. Why, any one of us may be a government agent or a spy right at this minute.
In certainstates--California is one of themhomo sex doesn't matter, either. Are they special magnetic letters, do you think? Or have we gota poltergeist working the lakefront? I don't know. But I was the only Shape left, atleast in this part of the world, and the only movement I saw wasripple-shadows thrown by the rain rolling down the windows. The temperature out there musthave been at least ninety degrees, but the air still felt cool on myskin after the office.
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