Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison5/7/2023 "A leader became so blinded by his own glory that no longer could he perceive his own blunders. "In these days it is an all too familiar story," he said. "No." Resting long, slender hands upon his stick, he gazed meditatively forward. "You're not a native of this New York?" I prompted. The stranger confides that he is a refugee. A great surgeon or sculptor or something like that. My mind speculated about him the way minds do when momentarily they've nothing else to bother them. He glided out of the gathering dusk and seated himself at the other end of my bench and gazed absently across the lakes towards the Sherry Netherland. The narrator meets a strange person while sitting on a bench at the setting of the sun. They have indicated that the following story is not what they were looking for.Ĭould this be the short story "Displaced Person" by Eric Frank Russell? This answer was written before the querant added that they remember the devil as being a snake.
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