Re: JCO: Re: Boys at a Picnic (spoilers)

I never cared for those "wild boy" stories. There's one in the collection
THE GODDESS AND OTHER WOMEN entitled "The Voyage to Rosewood," about a girl who
impulsively takes a bus ride to another town just for the adventure and is
tormented by some boys she meets. Then when she calls home for her father to get
her, the father slaps her. JCO can really zero in on the unpleasant events
that befall people.
Cyrano

In a message dated 8/23/2004 4:13:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jward199@sbcglobal.net writes:

<< Greetings to Laurie and everyone else:

I am also glad to be back! Thanks for all your efforts to get things going
again, Randy. This discussion group had become so interesting right before the
cascade that I truly missed reading the posts.

I wasn't crazy about this story either. JCO presents that nasty side of
life, exposing cold-blooded random killers as people, people gone irrevocably
wrong in their thinking. Certainly Rafe's thinking is warped.

>>
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