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East of Eden, and Just a Bit South Being a True and Accurate Account of How Cain Found Himself a Wife Ken Scholes * * * * [Insert Pic eastofeden.jpg Here] * * * * “‘East of Eden and Just a Bit South’ was mostly Jay Lake’s fault. We were yukking it up at Norwescon in 2003 and started talking about collaborating. Jay threw out the title ‘The Boy’s Guide to Dating Outside the Gene Pool’ and told me to go start a story. It intrigued me—I played with that title all day and a story sparked. I wrote half of it that night, sent it to Jay, then couldn’t stop thinking about it and finished it up myself. He graciously offered me the title but it was too cool of a title to keep. (I can’t wait to see what he does with it—it’ll be brilliant!) And so, we have ‘East of Eden and Just a Bit South,’ my first attempt at writing humor and perhaps the first true and accurate account of how Cain found himself a wife....” * * * * I WAS IN LINE AT THE SUPERMARKET, fixing to buy me some beer, when I decided to tell my story. I’d just seen the headlines on the papers saying JFK had been successfully cloned by alien tax professionals and Elvis was living his life as a woman named Loretta Stills in New Jersey. Way I figure, a bit more truth can’t hurt: My name is Cain. The Good Book is flat-out wrong about me. Most folks ask |
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