

Dan Gorman knew that la Tucci expected something kookie from him because of his occupation, so he stopped in at a place called Lew’s Joke Shop to see if he could find something unusual to bring. The Tucci girl knew all of them, and they were all invited. Arch', an anagram of Rachel, as well as shorter sf and fantasy under her own name. She also wrote science fiction novels for Avalon Books under the name 'E.L. They all got along in reasonable harmony until the night of Honey Tucci’s party. The bulk of Cosgroves work consisted of historical romance novels, many published by Playboy Press, one under the name Joanne Kaye. There was Yusef Afifi, Afghan, an importer Fritz Holtzer, advertising model Johnny Jones, Welshman Oonalak, an Alaskan Eskimo Chien Wang, a refugee from Hong Kong a beautiful Ethiopian woman, whom they all called Sheba an equally lovely girl, Eufemia Rosario, who claimed to be a full blooded Mohawk Indian, and Irish Dan Gorman, science fiction and fantasy illustrator and artist. Mumble’s boardinghouse her name wasn’t ‘mumble,’ but that was what people did when they tried to pronounce it and you might call the place a miniature United Nations.

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