The Third Guy - Revision history

BigJohn: clarification

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BigJohn: Minor cleanup

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BigJohn: Add short story template

2023-10-10T15:51:16Z

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2023-10-10T15:49:03Z

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BigJohn: Add placeholder for Third Guy

2023-10-09T15:17:46Z

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{{Short Story
|title = The Third Guy
|cover = Weird-tales-1200x1800.jpg
|anthology = Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
|published = 2023
|pages = 18
|library = https://weirdtales.com
}}
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[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023 in the anthology. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar'', but the title was drastically abbreviated in the book itself. It appears as '''The Third Guy''' in the table of contents and as the chapter heading at the beginning of the story.

==Summary==

==Background==

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-[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar'', but the title was drastically abbreviated in the table of contents for the book, though the full title appears on the splash page of the story.
+[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar''. The title was drastically abbreviated in the table of contents for the book, though the full title appears on the splash page of the story.
 ==Summary==

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-[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023 in the anthology. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar'', but the title was drastically abbreviated in the table of contents for the book, though the full title appears on the splash page of the story.
+[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar'', but the title was drastically abbreviated in the table of contents for the book, though the full title appears on the splash page of the story.
 ==Summary==

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 |anthology  = Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
 |published  = 2023
-|pages      = 18
+|pages      = 16
 |library    = https://weirdtales.com
 }}
 {{TOCleft}}
-[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023 in the anthology. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar'', but the title was drastically abbreviated in the book itself. It appears as '''The Third Guy''' in the table of contents and as the chapter heading at the beginning of the story.
+[[The Third Guy]] is a short story in the [[Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird]] anthology, published in 2023 in the anthology. The full name of the story is ''The Third Guy From the Left, Bottom Row, in the Old-Timey Picture Above the Left-Side Urinal at McTeague’s Bar'', but the title was drastically abbreviated in the table of contents for the book, though the full title appears on the splash page of the story.
 ==Summary==
-==Background==
+Drunken sam visits the men's room and has a lucid hallucination warning him of impending danger that he must avoid, though he can tell no one. As the evening comes to a close, Matty, Phil and Sam head home, though Sam is shaken by his vision. The next morning starts with bad news, frightening Sam, who returns to McTeague's to attempt to find more information out about the predicted danger. Instead, he receives another lucid vision warning him to intervene in two strangers' relationship. Sam sits at the bar, drinking, when the strangers arrive and he must decide how or whether he should intercede.