（外文电子版资料）Orson Scott Card - Feed The Baby Of Love.pdf

file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Orson%20Scott%20Card%20-%20Feed%20The%20Baby%20Of%20Love.txt FEED THE BABY OF LOVE Orson Scott Card This story will appear in the anthology OCTOBERS FRIENDS, ed. by Martin Harry Greenberg, consisting of stories written in honor of Ray Bradburys 50 years of publishing science fiction. For this anthology, Ray Bradbury authorized the contributors to use characters and settings from his novels. This may be the only story in the anthology to use Douglas Spaulding, the main character from the Dandelion Wine stories. NOTE: The story Feed the Baby of Love is copyright (c) 1991 by Orson Scott Card. The game Feed the Baby of Love Many Beans or Perish in the Flames of Hell is copyright (c) 1990 by Greg Johnson. All quotations and game features depicted in this story are used by permission of the gamewright. The lyrics to The Baby of Love by Rainie Pinyon are used with the consent of the copyright holder. FEED THE BABY OF LOVE Orson Scott Card When Rainie Pinyon split this time she didnt go south, even though it was October and she didnt like the winter cold. Maybe she thought that this winter she didnt deserve to be warm, or maybe she wanted to find some unfamiliar territory -- whatever. She got on the bus in Bremerton and got off it again in Boise. She hitched to Salt Lake City and took a bus to Omaha. She got herself a waitressing job, using the name Ida Johnson, as usual. She quit after a week, got another job in Kansas City, quit after three days, and so on and so on until she came to a tired-looking cafe in Harmony, Illinois, a small town up on the bluffs above the Mississippi. She liked Harmony right off, because it was pretty and sad -- half the storefronts brightly painted and cheerful, the other half streaked and stained, the windows boarded up. The kind of town that would be perfectly willing to pick up and move into a shopping mall only nobody wanted to bu