Barry N. Malzberg - Gehenna

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GEHENNA

Barry N. Malzberg

Fictionwise Publications

Edward got on the IRT downtown local at 42nd Street for Greenwich

Village. The train stopped at 33rd Street, 27th Street, 17th Street and

Christopher Circle. As it turned out he met his wife at this party.

It was a standard Greenwich Village all-of-us-are-damned gathering.

She was sitting in a corner of the room, her feet bare, listening to a man

with sad mustaches play a mandolin. Edward went over to say hello to her.

She looked at him with vague disinterest and huddled closer to the

mandolin player, who turned out—on further inspection—to be her date

for the night. But Edward was persistent—his parents had always told him

that his fearfulness was his chief detracting characteristic—and later that

night he got her address.

Two days later he showed up with a shopping bag filled with gourmet

food and asked her if she would help him eat it. She shrugged and

introduced him to her cats. Three weeks later they slept with one another

for the first time and the week after that the mandolin player and he had a

fight, at the end of which the mandolin player wished them well and left

her flat forever. Edward and Julie were engaged only a few days after that

and during the month he married her in Elktown.

They went back to New York and started life together. He gave up

mathematics, of course, and became an accountant. She gave up painting

and took to going to antique shops once a week, bringing back objects

every now and then. It was not a bad life, even if it had started out,

perhaps, a bit on the contrived side.

Three years later Edward opened the door and found Julie playing with

their year-old daughter, shaking a rattle and putting it deep into the

baby's mouth. The scene was a pleasing one and he felt quite contented

until she looked up at him and he saw that she was crying.

He put down his briefcase and asked her what was wrong. She told him

that their life had been an utter waste. Everything she wanted she had not

gotten—everything that she had gotten she did not want. She was

surrounded by things, she told him, she had prepared herself as a child to

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