Night in the Lonesome October

by Richard Laymon

‘Nobody has a single goddamn right,’ she said, ‘to take what doesn’t belong to them. Like a government, for instance. The government’s got no right to make us do anything ... not even for what they call “the common good.” We’re nobody’s slaves. We have an absolute right to the fruits of our own labor and we don’t owe jack-shit to society. You ever hear of John Galt?’

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