h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

stephen king

Posted Mar 15, 2002

What happened was simple enough-at least, at the start. What happened was that Rebecca Paulson shot herself in the head with her husband joe`s .22-caliber pistol. This occurred during her annual spring cleaning, Which took place this year (as it did most years) around the middle of june. Becka had a way of falling behind in such things. She was standing on a short stepladder and rummaging through the accumulated juck on the high shelf in the downstairs hall closet while the Paulson cat, a big brindle tom named Ozzie Nelson, sat in he living-room doorway, watching her. From behind Ozzie came the anxious voices of `Another world`, blaring out of the big old Zenith TV-which would later become something much more that a TV.
`Becka pulled stuff down and examined it, hoping for something that was still good, but not really expecting to find such a thing. There were four or five knitted winter caps, all motheaten and unraveling. She tossed them behind her onto the hall foor. Here was a Reader`s Digest Condensed Book from the summer of 1954, featuring Run Deep and Here`s Goggle. Water damage had swelled it to the size of the manhatan telephone book. She tossed it behind her. Ah ! Here was an umbrella that lloked salvageable...and a box with something in it ...(to be con)

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