On 05-19-98 DAVID MASTERS wrote to MAUREEN GOLDMAN... 
 
 MG> Are you familiar with the short story?  It doesn't strike me as 
 MG> a likely candidate to be adapted. 
 
 DM> I've read the short story (it's in the "Night Shift" collection) -- 
 DM> it doesn't strike me as a candidate for *anything*. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 DM> All it is - from 
 DM> what little I remember - is a guy who hires this strange person to mow 
 DM> his lawn... by the end of the story, the guy who did the hiring is 
 DM> dead, apparently mowed to death.  Heck, it was one of those 
 DM> old-fashioned push mowers (not gasoline powered)... 
 
 The mower ran by itself, however, and the gardener ran after it 
 eating the grass clippings, plus a shredded gopher. 
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