标题: 《Rolling Steel, A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story 》作者：- Jay Lake & Shannon [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-7 09:25 标题: 《Rolling Steel, A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story 》作者：- Jay Lake & Shannon Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story Jay Lake & Shannon Page Rough Beast slouched toward the Bethlehem steel mill. Tons of fresh hot metal in there, every cobber and new chum from the Allegheny to the Delaware knew that. Even Topper, the old cat-eyed bastard with steel cables for fingers and a brain stewed in barium-laced ??ther, knew which way the good stuff lay, for all that he couldn't tell up from down on days ending with a /y/. He's a bad man, our Topper. Used to run child-soldiers over the St. Lawrence to the Froggies during the Quebec-and-Michigan War. La troisième mutinerie , the Quebecoise called it in one of their endless prayers to St. Jude, for if ever a cause was lost surely it is theirs. Wolfe had put paid to their ambitions at the Plains of Abraham two centuries earlier, but no Frenchman ever born minded much dying for the romance of a shattered heart. And there was no heart so shattered as that of a patriot whose country has been brought to ground. And so we have Topper, driven bird-mad in