Johnny Angel William is acting coy, carrying from the afternoon from the day before. After a swim they talk. A year before William lost a friend, Frank after three months. William doesn’t speak about much, holding back a lot of inner pain and emotion. Mathew Someway Still at the Sea of Prosperity with Michael, Mathew wakes up to find Louis gone, finding him swimming in the sea but is taken up by a diving flying sled. Michael is sure Louis has been taken by an alien who had been in contact with against Mathew’s better judgement and joins Michael in a sea search, but suddenly Michael is gone. Mathew swims well away from the yacht and finds not the missing Michael but Louis who teaches him how to fly. Landing on an alien yacht, Mathew is introduced to Louis’s friends who have their own problems; one of theirs is missing also. A year before Mathew had been woken by a light and rescued an alien boy, the missing one, and Mathew ponders how to protect him. Christopher Cross Christopher wakes in an English village with Oliver Black and during a run, romance ensues in the bathtub and when they dress, the school bus is waiting. Aboard in school uniform are the damned with their leader Nicholas Knowles. Simon Sevenson Simon dreams of May’s class with Alfred Pointers and Theodore in 1950’s England. Monday 12pm, Simon cannot avoid Theodore. Outside they run to a swimming hole. Theodore, after running off with their clothes, comes back on the attack, but when Simon pins him down, he collapses. Dressing him, the mode controller falls out. The only way out is Simon promising him to spend a weekend at home together. Using meters and coins, too late Simon sees Mouse, Theodore had nicknamed him and set up a place on the controller; an interface that takes Simon, Theodore and the class aboard the controller’s third harmonic
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John Williams (1922–1994) was born in Texas. The poet and novelist taught at and received his PhD from the University of Missouri in the early 1950s. In 1955 he became the director of the University of Denver’s creative writing program, where he became the editor of the University of Denver Quarterly. He remained at Denver until his retirement in 1986. He was a cowinner of the 1973 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Augustus.