Apologue James Morrow SciFiction 2001 James Morrow www.sff.net/people/Jim.Morrow lives in State College Pennsylvania according tohis website with his wife Kathryn his twelve-year-old son Christopher and two enigmaticdogs: Pooka a Border collie and Amtrak a stray Doberman that Jim and Kathy rescued from atrain station in Orlando Florida. He devotes his leisure hours to his family his Lionel toyelectric trains and his video collection of vulgar Biblical spectacles. Morrows novelsinclude This Is the Way the World Ends 1986 Only Begotten Daughter 1990 winner of theWorld Fantasy Award and Towing Jehovah 1994 the first of a trilogy about the death of God.Much of his short fiction is collected in Bible Stories for Adults 1996 including the NebulaAward-winning fable The Deluge. His next book is an historical novel The WitchfinderGeneral due out in 2002. This story somehow reminds one of the best fantasy fiction of Ray Bradbury. The year 2001 wasone of great excitement great tragedy in the real world and great change. The world is in aneconomic recession now officially dating from March 2001 which we hope will be in recovery bythe time you read this in mid-2002 and there is a war going on. James Morrow reminds us thatour contemporary fantasies even our monsters while they cannot solve our problems can upliftus spiritually and give us solace in such times. The instant they heard the news the three of them knew they had to do something and sojoints complaining ligaments protesting they limped out of the retirement home went down tothe river swam across and climbed onto the wounded island. Theyd always looked out for each other in times gone by and this day was no different. Theape placed a gentle paw on the rhedosaurs neck keeping the half-blind prehistoric beast fromstepping on cars and bumping into skyscrapers. The mutant lizard helped the incontinent aperemove his disposable undergarments and replace them with a dry pair. The rhedosaur