5/13/2023 0 Comments The illustrated man stories![]() ![]() Willie then stares at another illustration and becomes, along with Carl and two other men, part of a crew of shipwrecked astronauts stranded on a small planet where it rains incessantly. Returning to reality, Willie listens raptly to Carl's tale of how Felicia seduced him into subjecting himself to her tattoo needles. Upon hearing the children scream, Carl and Felicia race into the nursery and are devoured by the lions. Disturbed that the children have chosen an African veldt inhabited by lions and vultures, Carl and Felicia order the youngsters to play in a different environment. Willie stares at one of the illustrations and is transported into the future in which Carl and Felicia are the parents of two precocious children, John and Anna, who have a nursery where they can electronically create any environment they wish. He tells Willie that 20 years before Felicia covered his body with skin illustrations and then "went back into the future." Carl warns that if anyone looks at the one bare spot on his body, his left shoulder, that person will see his own future. ![]() Willie, a young man hitchhiking to California in 1933, stops by a country lake and meets Carl, a former carnival roustabout who says he is looking for an old farmhouse and a mysterious woman, Felicia, whom he plans to kill. ![]()
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