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PL-54-371 Strange Marriage
Strange Marriage
Paperback Library
PL-54-371
James Colton
$0.75
Excerpt
In the alcove where the chess players sat, he saw a chessboard lying on the floor. Knights, pawns, castles were scattered across the blue tiles. A boy with huge shoulders stood over the table, wearing an ugly grin. One of the boys who had been playing chess, an undersized boy with thick glasses, sat clutching his coke bottle, scared. The other player was standing, facing his tormentor.
This boy was slender. His brown, tightly curled hair fitted his handsome skull like a cap. He had large, dark, sad eyes that redeemed a face too bony, nose too thin and highbridged. Randy had noticed him before and rather liked him. He moved with the angular gracelessness of the kid who shuns athletics, who sits and reads, thinks, dreams too much, the boy who is all brain and nerves, no brawn. He was white and tense now with outrage.
“You stupid ape. You’re just like all the other morons. Anything you can’t understand, you have to smash.”
“Smash you!” The muscle boy lunged at him. In his grip, the bookish youngster looked fragile as a glassware cabinet. A big fist swung.
“Hold it!” Randy called out sharply.
The big boy checked his swing and turned his head.
That was all the opportunity the chess player needed. His knee jerked up sharply into the muscle boy’s crotch. The big youth yelped, doubled over and fell to the floor. Randy stood waiting for him to stop whimpering, then bent, gripped his arm, and hauled him to his feet.
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