Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel - Plot & Excerpts
snapped Vassar.“Leave him be,” said Ned, who’d already teeped what Alan was up to.Alan had decided to phone the Burroughs home. Perhaps he was about to die. He needed to talk to Bill one last time. Grumbling but basically patient, Ned, Vassar and Susan stood beneath the entrance overhang outside the Old Gib, smoking cigarettes and watching the rain.Lacking any large amount of coins to pump into the phone, Alan recklessly made it a collect call. He told the operator to say the call was from “Bill’s friend Abby.”Fortunately it was Laura Burroughs who answered. Although it was nearly bedtime in Palm Beach by now, she was willing to take the call.“Oh hello,” said Alan. “You remember me from the chat at your store?”“Yes I do,” said Laura Burroughs. “The Abby who’s an Alan. Lucky you, Bill is here. He turned up yesterday evening. I’ll see if I can rouse him.”A moment of charged not-quite-silence ensued, with fifteen hundred miles of ticks and whispers chiming in.
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