-=> Quoting Maureen Goldman to David Masters <=-
 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*. 
 MG> 
 MG> Ditto.
Some of the stories in that collection look fairly interesting... but
why two of the most boring ones ("The Lawnmower Man" and "Trucks") ever
got made into films, I don't know.
 
 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)... 
 MG> 
 MG> The mower ran by itself, however, and the gardener ran after it 
 MG> eating the grass clippings, plus a shredded gopher. 
As I said... it's been a while since I read that one.  Usually when I
read the Night Shift collection - which isn't often - I only bother
reading the ones I consider to be interesting... "Jerusalem's Lot",
"Battleground", "Strawberry Spring", etc.
                         David "Nightwolf" Masters
                             dmasters@jlc.net
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