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Show Flying - 6l ground between the buildings and gather in black pools under the street-lights. "I ever show you a picture of my girl?" says Tex. He pulls out his wallet and hands John Henry a black and white photo of a young Korean girl with surgically rounded eyes, short black hair, small breasts under a white blouse, a professional smile. Across the bottom, in ballpoint pen, it says "To Tex with love. Suzle." "She's pretty," says lustful John Henry, who hasn't had a girl since the whore in a Georgia hotel three months ago. "I was gonna marry her, says Tex putting the picture back in his wallet, "only they wouldn't let me stay until I could get all the papers made out. The old man wouldn't sign, because she'd been a call-girl for a while. Said she didn't have no moral character, wouldn't make a good citizen. I wanted to bring her back with me. She could've lived in Pecos with my folks until I got out of the Army." In Pecos. Red white and blue billboards that say IMPEACH EARL WARREN. Sheriffs that don't have nothing against nobody, you understand, only no nigger ever stays in this town past sunset. They just don't feel at home here. Baptist congregations full of hard-eyed women in print dresses. She could've lived in Pecos. Saturday barbecues and VFW picnics. Little league games. The next day O'Connell strikes. O'Connell the actor |