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Show 105 Funly Half of Funster's back yard was now a ditch. Funly spent a lot of time back there now. x^xaaaxiixaiixiaxaxaHi He and Jimbo had it all laid out; the quarters for his mother and sister, him and x±x Jimbo, the bathroom, the food storage room, the communications room for radio, CB, short wave. "We might have to make some pretty hard decisions about Grandpa," said Funly. "He's old. And he hasn't got out of bed since SxxiimaxRxHxiaxxiaxxxx Grandma Funster left." Funly v/as a£ a little taller now and a little thinner, but he still had that flat-top. "It's a little scarey," said Funly. "Grandpa keeps talking about ifca war, but he didn't fight in any war. Maybe he knows something's going to happen." He looked at me real serious. "Soon." "He's just listening to my Uncle Jon's voices," I said. "You v/ant Grandma Funster back, come on over to Helen's holy room and get her." Funly studied the ditch. "I think we'll have to have a turret," he said. . xS "We can't have holes on every side for £ guns. We won't have enough people to guard, and there'll be radioactivity. We'll have to have some kind of swiveling periscope and a gun like a tank. The Unprepared will be the first wave, and if it ends up house to house with the Russians we're going to go down fighting." "What do the Russians want with Erie, Pennsylvania, let alone this fucking neighborhood, Funly?" "We'll have to get some way of monitoring the radiation," Funly said, rubbing his hands over his flat-top. "And some lead-lined suits, just in case we have to go outside." "For picnics." "Do you know what's happened in Cuba?" said Funly. "Do you know the Russians got Sputnik?" " S t i n k y ' s team's playing for the akam championship today," I said. "Want t o go w a t c h .' "Just d o n ' t come knocking on the roof of our s h e l t e r when i t a l l comes down," said Funly, "because y o u ' l l be looking down the barrel of a a a machine a gun. SSSBEx^ggggExxx^xxxl^^ 3SSilKX«i3BBSXX5Bta3XX«K |