tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post1527114432648437130..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: THE STATE OF THE BLOG AND OTHER THINGSJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-61252271674106854812018-01-05T16:28:13.645-08:002018-01-05T16:28:13.645-08:00Nothing comes to mind, Todd. It has somewhat of a...Nothing comes to mind, Todd. It has somewhat of a Richard Matheson's "Little Girl Lost" feel to it, but I know that isn't it.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-41954850336256912462018-01-02T19:43:55.977-08:002018-01-02T19:43:55.977-08:00This request comes from Scott Nicolay. I helped hi...This request comes from Scott Nicolay. I helped him narrow it down to probably something reprinted by Xerox's classroom-use magazine in the 1970s, READ, a competitor to Scholastic Magazines. Do you think you might've come across this story elsewhere?<br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-55978518512493538622018-01-02T19:41:14.978-08:002018-01-02T19:41:14.978-08:00Here's astory ID request for you: Somewhere ba...Here's astory ID request for you: Somewhere back in the '70s (between 1970-and 1977, and probably closest to 1974-1975 +/-2 years) I read a short-short SF/Horror story in one of the little free magazines that we sometimes received in school from Scholastic and possibly other sources.<br /><br />One day a friend showed me a story in their copy of one of these little magazines (it was more or less digest sized) that I had missed because I was out sick (so this was probably in the winter? it explains why I never had my own copy though). The narrator of the story is a child attending another child's birthday party in the future (at least in the future as perceived from the mid-'70s), and bringing a special gift made in the lab in which his/her father worked (I can't remember with any certainty the gender of either the narrator or the recipient of the gift, though I think the recipient might have been a girl).<br /><br />The gift is a little box, and a string or cord extends out of a hole on one side of the box. When the recipient of the gift pulls on the string, the string pulls back. A delightful tug-of-war ensues, until suddenly whatever is on the other side of the string pulls so hard the birthday girl(?) is drawn into the hole and disappears inside the box. Possibly followed by screams and/or crunching/eating sounds...<br /><br />The final line of the story was something close to "I forgot the monster on the other side of the nowhere-hole could pull back."<br /><br />I also distinctly remember a rather spoilery illustration of a monster accompanying the story. The image (which appears in blue ink in my memory) was a frontal depiction of a ragged and vicious-looking humanoid monster with a fibrous cord extending from the tip of one of its claws.<br /><br />I have searched in vain for this story for 40 years, and will be genuinely indebted to anyone who can ID it and/or help me locate a copy.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-3815982857356945112018-01-02T19:39:59.092-08:002018-01-02T19:39:59.092-08:00I am very glad your blog exists and that you are t...I am very glad your blog exists and that you are taking joy in writing it still...pictures can be good, though Blogspot can make them problematic at times...just going back to having "hot" links on the blog would be more than enough, given how much you so generously share. Indeed, thanks...and an even better 2018 to you all...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-49358468736572291872018-01-01T09:13:12.536-08:002018-01-01T09:13:12.536-08:00After 11 years of blogging, I find it hard to keep...After 11 years of blogging, I find it hard to keep coming up with things to say. Friday is easy and now Monday is okay. But I still love reading other people's blogs, especially those who share their lives. Thanks for sharing yours. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-8429826417477051102018-01-01T07:41:40.333-08:002018-01-01T07:41:40.333-08:00WoW!253! That's a very impressive figure.
A V...WoW!253! That's a very impressive figure.<br /><br />A Very Happy 2018 to you and your family.neerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01986509319841061021noreply@blogger.com