（外文电子版资料）Stephen King - Chattery Teeth.docVIP

Chattery Teethby Stephen King Looking into the display case was like looking through a dirty pane of glass into the middle third of his boyhood, those years from seven to fourteen when he had been fascinated by stuff like this. Hogan leaned closer, forgetting the rising whine of the wind outside and the gritty spick-spack sound of sand hitting the windows. The case was full of fabulous junk, most of it undoubtedly made in Taiwan and Korea, but there was no doubt at all about the pick of the litter. They were the largest Chattery Teeth hed ever seen. They were also the only ones hed ever seen with feet -- big orange cartoon shoes with white spats. A real scream. Hogan looked up at the fat woman behind the counter. She was wearing a tee-shirt that said nevada is gods country on top (the words swelling and receding across her enormous breasts) and about an acre of jeans on the bottom. She was selling a pack of cigarettes to a pallid young man whose long blonde hair had been tied back in a ponytail with a sneaker shoelace. The young man, who had the face of an intelligent lab-rat, was paying in small change, counting it laboriously out of a grimy hand. Pardon me, maam? Hogan asked. She looked at him briefly, and then the back door banged open. A skinny man wearing a bandanna over his mouth and nose came in. The wind swirled desert grit around him in a cyclone and rattled the pin-up cutie on the Valvoline calendar thumb-tacked to the wall. The newcomer was pulling a handcart. Three wire-mesh cages were stacked on it. There was a tarantula in the one on top. In the cages below it were a pair of rattlesnakes. They were coiling rapidly back and forth and shaking their rattles in agitation. Shut the damn door, Scooter, was you born in a barn? the woman behind the counter bawled. He glanced at her briefly, eyes red and irritated from the blowing sand. Gimme a chance, woman! Cant you see I got my hands full here? Aint you got eyes? Christ! He reached over the dolly and slamme