"Ron Goulart - Why I Never Went Steady With Heather Moon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goulart Ron)

"The beer -- how does it taste?"

"Fine, not like brine anymore."

Nat rested both elbows on the table top. "There are, you know, ways to counter
the sorts of spells he's been using on you. You could stand up to him, fight
him."

"No, nope. Not me. It's over and done. My heart is broken, sure, and my social
life's in ruins, but there won't be any more huge foul-smelling, and usually
noisy, creatures from the nether regions carousing in my damn apartment at all
hours and causing old Mr. Reisberson to whap the wall with his cane. My food
will no longer taste like week old garbage, or fraternity chow, and my beers
will no longer taste like polluted sea water and every time I try to drink a
Coke, there won't be a toad in it or --"

"I still think you should've complained to Coke about the toads. It may not have
been part of one of the spells, since a cousin of mine in Philadelphia once
found a mouse in his Pepsi."

"Furthermore, my papers won't bum away to ashes before I can turn them in. The
pages of my text books won't wither to dust or become so splotched with blood
that I can't read them. All in all, Nat, I shall, from now on, lead a normal
life." Sighing, I drank some more of my beer. "But, damn it, I'm really going to
miss Sue."

When he leaned back in his chair, it creaked. "So who are you going to take to
your fraternity dance this Saturday?"

"Hell, I forgot about that," I admitted."I'm on the cleanup committee, too. Be
ironic if I went to the dance alone."

"Maybe you should sign up for one of Krouch's English classes. Find out what
irony really is," he advised. "It happens I can fix you up."

"With who? Not that friend of Bev's who's on the fencing team?"

"Someone else entirely."

"No, I don't think so."

"She's very pretty. Has auburn hair and a delicate tracing of freckles across
the bridge of her nose."

"Here I've been forced to end, after being dogged by demons and plagued by the
machinations of a professor with a command of powerful sorcery, a deep and
meaningful relationship with Sue Smith." I frowned at him. "And you attempt to
console me with someone who's merely pretty."

Nat gazed up at the ceiling for a moment. "You didn't happen, during your recent