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Welcome to the World Wide Web edition of Philip Baruth's futuristic novel, The Millennium Shows. The text and graphics of the original paperback edition (ISBN 0-9637025-5-6) are presented here in their entirety, with a page for each of the book's thirteen chapters.
Cover
Front Matter & Dedication
Publisher's Introduction
Prologue
"My life is a set-list."
Chapter 1
"When I lost Edward and Sonjee, it was like losing parents, and brothers and sisters."
Chapter 2
"The traffic woke me near six; a change in the sound above me from unpatterned to patterned, fuller, throatier."
Chapter 3
"My sleep is always black and dreamless as espresso after I tell the story, perfect, undisturbed."
Chapter 4
"In the morning Ella wouldn't get out of bed."
Chapter 5
"Most mornings we would ripple into consciousness, like lights coming on in series."
Chapter 6
"The winter never happened for us."
Chapter 7
"There was a time: I knew a woman who was to have a child by the Dead."
Chapter 8
"It was surpassingly strange, to find ourselves in a house."
Chapter 9
"I filled their tank with gas somwhere outside of Costa Mesa, California, and the old woman cashier reminded me in a soft clunking voice that Sunday was the expiration date of my card."
Chapter 10
"'Ahoy.'"
Chapter 11
"I had to stop and lean on a car half way there."
Chapter 12
"That was the begining of the long afternoon."
Chapter 13
"Edward was ready to leave."
