Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

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An excerpt from a science fiction short story.

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Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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Callahan's cross time saloon by Spider Robinson, the guy with the eyes. Every drink in the house is half a buck with the option. The option operates as follows. You place a $1 bill on the bar. If all you have is a Finn, you trot across the street to the all night deli, get change, come back and put a $1 bill on the bar. Callahan maintains that nobody in his right mind would counterfeit $1 bills. Most of us figure he just likes to rub fistfuls of them across his face. After closing, you are served your poison of choice. You inhale this and confront the option. You may as you leave, pick up 2/4 from the always full cigar box at the end of the bar and exit into the night. Or you may upon finishing your drink, stride up to the chalk line in the middle of the room, announce a toast. This is mandatory and earlier glass into the huge old fashioned fireplace, which takes up most of the back wall. You then depart without visiting the cigar box or pony up another book and exercise your option again. Calledem Seldom Castro plunged the cigar box