Usher's Passing

by Robert McCammon

I must also say that as a writer I am compelled to view the world through my own eyes!” “Then,” the other man said coldly, “it seems the world would’ve been the better if you had been born blind.”

He was finding out that he could do things he’d never dreamed of before—and he liked the feeling. He liked it very, very much.

Them Ushers have got money … but they live in a cage, without knowin’ it. Once in a while they bump their heads on the bars. All their money can’t buy ’em the key.