“This day father hit in the chain again before it had light. I have to try to pull it out again. He said I was bad to come upstairs. He said never do that again or he would beat me hard. That hurts.”

—  Richard Matheson

Born of Man and Woman (1950)

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American fiction writer 1926–2013

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