R.A. Lafferty Devotional Page




The Works

This is a list of all known shortstories, that Lafferty wrote. I allowed myself the liberty to give a short critique to each story I've read. Excellent is a story that I'd recommend to anyone. OK is a story a Lafferty fan would like. Lame are short stories, that are either really boring or just lesser variations of a recurrent theme.

You can now add your own comments to each story if you like, or read what other readers wrote.

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas [read]

Von Nat! am 13.07.03 21:57 | Keine Kommentare
OK A new census is taken. The census taker makes the mistake of being too thorough with the check of the inhabitants of the area. After he is done with the 10 regular people in the area, he starts to wonder:  
Now - in one way of looking at it - his part in 
the census was finished. If only he had looked at 
it that way, he would have saved worry and trouble 
for everyone, and also ten thousand lives. But the 
instructions they had given him here were ambigous, 
for all that they had tried to make them clear.

So very early the next morning, Manuel rose and 
cooked beans and said, "Might as well take them 
all."

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