Good evening.
Those who have been following the story related from The Rocky Stone Notebooks (which Mr. Sanders has given the appropriate title The Lost Love) will note that on occasion, the author of the notebooks, who has yet to be confirmed, has a tendency to use metaphors which are sketchy at best. In a later entry for instance, Rocky quotes himself as saying a man was "not worth his weight in salt," and at another point, when fixing a client a drink: "Here's a little hair of the bus that hit you." These phrases do not appear in the stories appearing in True Real Detective Magazine, written by Adam Santeno.
Santeno also relates the events of this particular story, in the July 1949 issue of TRDM, under the scatalogical title "The Man in My Wife's Bed." There are many differences beteween the two: the Pastor in the notebook becomes a business owner in the Santeno version. His wife leaves him, rather than him turning her away. Marjorie—named Harriet by Santeno—runs off with a liquor vendor rather than the boy who mops up the floor, etc. The story is also far more graphic, or rather, as graphic as the pulp magazine editor would allow in 1949. However, the main theme remains the same.
Good evening.
