Astounding Science Fiction (British edition) — page 94: what you’re looking at

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CRAZY JOEY By MARK CLIFTON and ALEX APOSTOLIDES There’s nothing wrong with being a telepath; the trouble is it’s maybe alittle crazy to let people know it. Illustrated by van Dongen age pulled the covers up over his head, trying to shut out the whispers which filled the room. But even with the pillow over his head, their shrill buzz entered up through the roof of his mouth, tasting acrid and. bitter, spinning around in his brain. Fingers in his ears simply made the words emerge from a sensation of cutting little lights into words. “It worries me, Madge, more and more, the way that boy carries on. I was hoping he’d outgrow it, but he don’t.” 92 His father’s voice was deep and petulant. sounding from the pillow on his side of the bed there in the other room. “Hanging back all the time. Not playing with the other kids, staying out of school, claiming the teachers don’t like him. It ain’t natural, Madge. I don’t like it.” “Now you're working yourself up again, Bob,” his mother’s patient voice from her side of the bed cut across the deeper tones. ““What good is it going to do you?” “Did some good when I thrashed connicloookks.c© nl