《Kiss Me 》作者：- Katherine MaClean【EPUB】

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KISS ME by Katherine MacLean _______________________________ Copyright ?? 1997 by Katherine MacLeanReprinted in Years Best SF 3 HarperPrism ISBN 0-06-105901-3 eBook scanned proofed by binwiped 11-10-02 v1.0 D ennys new girlfriend Laury was not interested in sci-ence she was busy studying computerapplications to busi-ness but she was pretty and she hung around his laboratory most of herfree time and happily listened to him explain what he was doing. This time his laboratory was full of frogs. This bunch is from South Africa and this bunch in the plastic crate he pointed they arefrom Kenya. He moved his skinny self over to a big damp glass box. These are from a lake inGeorgia where they fell into a fishing boat. Usually people only send in frog falls when theycome down in dry ter-ritory or on city sidewalks come down like rain. Maybe they come downover lakes too but on a lake they could have jumped into the boat from the water. So I donttrust this batch. Laury stared solemnly at each one trying to see some exciting difference.All the frogs were dark brown or green with spots or a pinkish tan and they all had bigyellow-gold eyes. Beebeeb said a big one. But they all look normal she was disappointed. They dont look strange at all. She pickedthe biggest tan one from his glass box and kissed it but nothing about it changed. It staredat her and puffed its throat in and out Reebeeb. She put it back. Reebeeb she said back. Denny was eager to explain. Thats whats strange about them there arent any tree frogs ordesert toads or poi-son frogs or any of the interesting ones the frogs people send in fromfrog falls are always the same three kinds no matter where they are from. Where did you get all these frogs She tapped on the side of the glass box. Most of themjumped away from her fin-ger into the water and some jumped toward her finger and bumped theirnoses on the glass. Ouch she said sympathetically to the ones who had bumped their noses. That must have hurt.Denny was pleased by her interest. The whole collec-tion— he waved at the room full ofglass-faced boxes full of frogs was turned over to me by the Charles Fort Foun-dation. Peopleare always sending them frogs from sidewalks and city roofs. They are funding me for a researchproject on the frogs that come down in frog falls. Funding you She looked at him with admiration. Scientists seemed to have a talent forgenerating money for their most kooky projects. What do they want you to do Just study their