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Title: Brown John's Body
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Summary: "Brown John's Body" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction short story originally published in a magazine during the mid-20th century, specifically in January 1955. The tale explores themes of isolation, human-animal relationships, and the darker side of human nature. The narrative revolves around Erd Neff, a man deeply distrustful of humanity, who prefers the company of a rat named John over other people. The story follows Erd Neff as he manages a cash vault filled with currency while living a solitary life, mainly interacting with his pet rat, John, whom he has trained to communicate in rudimentary sounds. Neff's life takes a tense turn when two young intruders break into his warehouse, incapacitating him with a dangerous gas and leaving him tied up. As he struggles to breathe and escape, he calls upon John for help, attempting to motivate the rat to chew through his bonds. However, in a grim twist, John's instincts drive him to consume Neff's flesh in a desperate bid for survival. This harrowing ending underlines both Neff's emotional disconnect and the primal nature of survival instinct in the face of death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 95.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979
EBook No.: 32076
Published: Apr 21, 2010
Downloads: 100
Language: English
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Horror tales
Subject: Rats -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Brown John's Body
Credits:
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Brown John's Body" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction short story originally published in a magazine during the mid-20th century, specifically in January 1955. The tale explores themes of isolation, human-animal relationships, and the darker side of human nature. The narrative revolves around Erd Neff, a man deeply distrustful of humanity, who prefers the company of a rat named John over other people. The story follows Erd Neff as he manages a cash vault filled with currency while living a solitary life, mainly interacting with his pet rat, John, whom he has trained to communicate in rudimentary sounds. Neff's life takes a tense turn when two young intruders break into his warehouse, incapacitating him with a dangerous gas and leaving him tied up. As he struggles to breathe and escape, he calls upon John for help, attempting to motivate the rat to chew through his bonds. However, in a grim twist, John's instincts drive him to consume Neff's flesh in a desperate bid for survival. This harrowing ending underlines both Neff's emotional disconnect and the primal nature of survival instinct in the face of death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 95.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979
EBook No.: 32076
Published: Apr 21, 2010
Downloads: 100
Language: English
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Horror tales
Subject: Rats -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.