标题: 《Menage 》作者：- Simon Ings 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-11 11:40 标题: 《Menage 》作者：- Simon Ings 【EPUB】 Ménage by Simon Ings The author has written a TV movie, Gloria, four science fiction novels, Hothead, In the City of the Iron Fish, Hotwire, and Headlong, and a mainstream novel with SF undertones that is set in contemporary London. The paperback edition of Painkillers was published in England this spring. Mr. Ings’ short fiction publications include stories in The Third Alternative, Interzone, and on Scifi.com. “Ménage” is his first story for Asimov’s . * * * * A few days after the operation, Frank Wilson—our old producer, Rachel’s and mine—got together with me at the studio. Everything was so swollen and sore and stiff; even my face was a blank, paretic mask. Which was lucky, as there was nothing I especially wanted to express. Frank scratched his chin, at a loss. The blinds were down over the windows. He crossed the room and started to let in the daylight. “God, no,” I croaked, my voice horribly aged. He looked around him at the leavings of the operation—the monitors, the plastic curtains, the plastic flowers—everywhere but at me. He was smiling this “better in no time!” smile. I didn’t believe it and neither, I think, did he. * * * Frank’s visitations became frequent and regular