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Title: Round-Up Time
Original Publication: United States: Royal Publications, Inc,1956.
Note: Reading ease score: 89.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Round-Up Time" by Chester Cohen is a short story likely written in the mid-20th century, around the 1950s. This piece combines elements of speculative fiction and social commentary, exploring themes of mass hysteria and the effects of an unusual spectacle in an urban setting. The narrative centers around the bizarre and chaotic events that unfold when a character known as Queerpants unexpectedly captivates a crowd in Central Park. The story follows a protagonist who, struggling to make ends meet, finds unexpected fortune on the Fourth of July when he encounters a peculiar man, Queerpants. As Queerpants appears to conduct an imaginary performance, a throng of onlookers becomes entranced, showering the narrator with money as they are seemingly spellbound by the spectacle. The excitement crescendos as the crowd follows Queerpants to a strange, hovering structure that resembles a giant banana, where people willingly enter without apparent concern for their safety. Ultimately, the narrator, feeling alienated by the madness and left with a pile of money, grapples with the unsettling reality that everyone around him appears to have lost their sanity, leaving him questioning the events he has just witnessed. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Cohen, Chester
Illustrator: Giunta, John, 1920-1970
EBook No.: 67498
Published: Feb 25, 2022
Downloads: 84
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Subject: Beggars -- Fiction
Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Round-Up Time
Original Publication: United States: Royal Publications, Inc,1956.
Note: Reading ease score: 89.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Round-Up Time" by Chester Cohen is a short story likely written in the mid-20th century, around the 1950s. This piece combines elements of speculative fiction and social commentary, exploring themes of mass hysteria and the effects of an unusual spectacle in an urban setting. The narrative centers around the bizarre and chaotic events that unfold when a character known as Queerpants unexpectedly captivates a crowd in Central Park. The story follows a protagonist who, struggling to make ends meet, finds unexpected fortune on the Fourth of July when he encounters a peculiar man, Queerpants. As Queerpants appears to conduct an imaginary performance, a throng of onlookers becomes entranced, showering the narrator with money as they are seemingly spellbound by the spectacle. The excitement crescendos as the crowd follows Queerpants to a strange, hovering structure that resembles a giant banana, where people willingly enter without apparent concern for their safety. Ultimately, the narrator, feeling alienated by the madness and left with a pile of money, grapples with the unsettling reality that everyone around him appears to have lost their sanity, leaving him questioning the events he has just witnessed. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Cohen, Chester
Illustrator: Giunta, John, 1920-1970
EBook No.: 67498
Published: Feb 25, 2022
Downloads: 84
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Subject: Beggars -- Fiction
Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.