《One Last Game 》作者：- Robert Reed【EPUB】

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ONE LAST GAME Contents Saturday Sunday Robert Reed's recent appearances in our pages include "Crooked Creek," "Season to Taste," and "Market Day." Somehow, we've gone almost three months without a new story from him, an error we're happy to rectify. "One Last Game" follows thematically from two of Mr. Reed's earlier stories for us, "Will Be" (Jan. 1999) and "The Gulf" (Oct. 2000). If you haven't read those stories already, we predict that you will... which might mean that you already did... Saturday PATIENCE WAS ONE OF MOM'S words. Tolerance and cooperation were two more fat favorites. Of course she didn't say those words by their lonesome. It was more like, "Be patient with people. Be tolerant of people. Cooperate, even when it hurts." Then after a big pause, she'd say, "No, you need to cooperate particularly when it hurts. Promise me that. Please, would you, Neil?" He pretended not to be listening. Then she looked back at him. She made certain that he saw her stern face, and for the trillionth time, she said