Sitting in the Corner, Quietly Whimpering By Dennis Etchison

Sitting in the Corner, Quietly Whimpering
By Dennis Etchison
Whispers #9, Dec 1976

A woman makes a confession in a late night laundromat. Getting a handle on Etchison's short fiction - there's a mood and a concept, but little story and certainly no ending. This is the second short I've read which just ends with someone running out into the night.

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Deathtracks by Dennis Etchison

Deathtracks

by Dennis Etchison
Originally in Death, 1982

A Nielson family survey taker visits a couple who look for hidden messages in TV laugh tracks to explain why their son died in Vietnam.

Collected in Talking in the Dark, available from Amazon https://amzn.to/3zDqcHI