02363cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000520011324500220016526400510018730000470023833600260028533700260031133800360033749000750037350000310044850801160047952011830059553400450177865300180182365300170184165300200185883000750187885600430195399900170199632076UtSlPG20260610133730.0mcr n260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMarks, Winston K.q(Winston Kinney),d1915-197910aBrown John's Body 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2010  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1955.  aRelease date is 2010-04-21  aProduced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"Brown John's Body" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction short story originally published in a magazine during the mid-20th century, specifically in January 1955. The tale explores themes of isolation, human-animal relationships, and the darker side of human nature. The narrative revolves around Erd Neff, a man deeply distrustful of humanity, who prefers the company of a rat named John over other people.  The story follows Erd Neff as he manages a cash vault filled with currency while living a solitary life, mainly interacting with his pet rat, John, whom he has trained to communicate in rudimentary sounds. Neff's life takes a tense turn when two young intruders break into his warehouse, incapacitating him with a dangerous gas and leaving him tied up. As he struggles to breathe and escape, he calls upon John for help, attempting to motivate the rat to chew through his bonds. However, in a grim twist, John's instincts drive him to consume Neff's flesh in a desperate bid for survival. This harrowing ending underlines both Neff's emotional disconnect and the primal nature of survival instinct in the face of death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aShort stories  aHorror tales  aRats -- Fiction 0aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1955.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32076  c72922d72922