Maserschmidt
04-23-2011, 12:32 PM
The sheer implausibility of success has kept me from posting this for a while, but what the heck...I've seen some amazing things on SDMB.
In the late 60s/early 70s I had some books that were sort of Time Life-style: hard bindings, fairly thin content (<100 pages), maybe in the 8.5 x 11 range or slightly larger. One of them was a collection of stories. One of those stories was pretty bizarre, but it did stick in my head, and it went something like this, perhaps only vaguely like this:
A guy is on a horse in maybe pioneer days, in the woods, and somehow he's being stalked by a cougar, mountain lion, something like that. He gets injured and separated from his gun and perhaps horse, and he crosses a stream that is populated - and here it gets surreal - by stingrays. Stingrays? Really? Maybe it's piranhas, but in my memory it's stingrays. Maybe the woods are near a beach? Anyway, somehow the stingrays are on his side and they keep the mountain lion from crossing long enough that he gets his gun back in the nick of time and kills the mountain lion. Yay stingrays!
Crazy, right? Maybe I dreamed it. Good luck with this one.
In the late 60s/early 70s I had some books that were sort of Time Life-style: hard bindings, fairly thin content (<100 pages), maybe in the 8.5 x 11 range or slightly larger. One of them was a collection of stories. One of those stories was pretty bizarre, but it did stick in my head, and it went something like this, perhaps only vaguely like this:
A guy is on a horse in maybe pioneer days, in the woods, and somehow he's being stalked by a cougar, mountain lion, something like that. He gets injured and separated from his gun and perhaps horse, and he crosses a stream that is populated - and here it gets surreal - by stingrays. Stingrays? Really? Maybe it's piranhas, but in my memory it's stingrays. Maybe the woods are near a beach? Anyway, somehow the stingrays are on his side and they keep the mountain lion from crossing long enough that he gets his gun back in the nick of time and kills the mountain lion. Yay stingrays!
Crazy, right? Maybe I dreamed it. Good luck with this one.