![]() Jeffty was still five years old, not a day older.Īt twenty-two I came home for keeps. Now I knew there was something different about him, something wrong, something weird. I came back during the summers, to work at my Uncle Joe’s jewelry store. ![]() When I was ten, my grandfather died of old age and I was “a troublesome kid,” and they sent me off to military school, so I could be “taken in hand.” When I was seven, I came back home and went to find Jeffty, so we could play together. When I was that age, five years old, I was sent away to my Aunt Patricia’s home in Buffalo, New York for two years. During this, Horton talks about a young boy called Jeffty: Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison ( F&SF, July 1977) opens with a short “things aren’t what they used to be” passage about Clark Bars (a period confectionary) before going on to give a nostalgic account of the narrator Donny Horton’s childhood years. ![]()
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