The Holy Terror (36 page)
Well I’m going out west where I belong
Where the days are short and the nights are long
Where they walk and I’ll walk
Where they twist and I’ll twist
Where they shimmy and don’t you hear me
They fly and I’ll fly
Well they’re out there having fun
In that warm California sun
Well I’m goin’ out west, out on the coast
Where the California girls are really the most
Where they walkand I’ll walk
They twist and I’ll twist
They shimmy and don’t you hear me
They fly and I’ll fly
Well they’re out there having fun
In that warm California sun
Well they’re out there having fun
In that warm
FADE TO BLACK
Wayne Allen Sallee
Chicago, Illinois
7 November, 1988 * * * 23 October 1990
Wayne Allen Sallee’s work ranges from an interview with serial killer John Wayne Gacy to a concordance for the ABC show LOST (BenBella Books). His fiction has appeared in 175 anthologies and been reprinted in at least six languages. Sallee’s stories, five of them finalists for the Bram Stoker award, are collected in WITH WOUNDS STILL WET (Silver Salamander) and FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT (Annihilation Press).
With a letterhead that read “I will Flatline Before I Go Online!”, Sallee held on to his Galaxie Twelve typewriter and banged out a memoir of Ed McBain as everyone else discovered what a Pentium Chip could do. In October of 1997, he bought a cobbled together computer from a guy named Bulldog and signed up with AOL. The manual typewriter was tossed into the South Branch of the Chicago River, before Sallee realized that computers could break down with regularity.
Currently, he is co-writing a comic series for younger readers, SECRET IDENTITIES, with Michael Fountain, to be published by Kalyani Navyug Publications in New Delhi, India.