On 4 February 2001, Tobin Fields wrote:
: ... I found that in the Brown short story collection
NIGHTMARE IN
: DARKNESS there was published an alternate (original?)
ending for MIMI
: with fantasy elements. Has anyone read this or know
anything about it?
I have that collection, and took a look. At the end of THE
SCREAMING MIMI, Sweeney is alive, and sitting on a park bench
talking to Godfrey, nicknamed God. In the alternate ending,
he was attacked by the dog Devil and stabbed by Yolanda, and
finds himself sitting with the real God. God offers him a
drink of some fine stuff from a flask, and tells Sweeney
Yolanda will die in two years and will join him then. He can
wait, and write, or compose, or do whatever he wants. He can
drink and drink and never get a hangover. It ends, "Sweeney
sighed happily and reached for the silver flask."
The extract is about three pages long.
Bill
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