"Laymon, Richard - The Traveling Vampire Show" - читать интересную книгу автора (Laymon Richard)

They threw enough money at the problem to bring in a bulldozer and lay
a dirt road where there'd only been tire tracks before. They also
provided funds for a modest "stadium" in the middle ofJanks Fidd.

The stadium, Fargus's brainchild, consisted of high bleachers on both
sides of an arena.

A very small arena.

The county ran electricity in and put up banks of lights for "night
games."

On a mild June night a little over two years ago, Fargus's stadium went
into operation.

It was open to the public unless otherwise booked for a special event.
Anyone could use it day or night, because the lights were on a timer.
They came on at sundown and stayed on all night, every night, as a
deter ant to shenanigans.

Fargus's "special events" took place every Friday and Saturday night

that summer. Because the arena was so small, there couldn't be
anything the size of basketball games, tennis matches, stage plays or
band concerts.

The events had to be small enough to fit in.

So Fargus brought to the stadium a series of spectacular duds: a
ping-pong tournament, a barbershop quartet, a juggling show, a piano
solo, a poetry reading, an old fart doing card tricks.

Even though the events were free, almost nobody showed up for them.

Which was a good thing, in a way, because Fargus's big plan for the
stadium hadn't included a parking lot. This was a major oversight,
since most people drove to the events. They ended up parking their
cars every which way on Janks Fidd. Not a big problem if only twenty
or thirty people showed up.

But then one night toward the end of that summer, Fargus charged a five
dollar admission and brought in a night of boxing and about two hundred
people drove in for it.

Things were so tight in Janks Field that some of them had to climb over
the tops of cars and pickup trucks in order to reach the arena. Not
only did the field get jammed tight, but so did the dirt road leading
in.

Regardless, just about everyone somehow made it into the stands in time