"End-Game" by J.G. Ballard

Post » Fri May 13, 2011 5:14 am

I had randomly remembered a short story I read my Junior year of high school, titled "End-Game" by J.G. Ballard, and went to go look it up, but had forgotten the title and the author.

Now, you would imagine with all of the wealth of information on the Internet, I'd be able to find it pretty easily considering what I knew of the plot. Not the case. It took me a good twenty minutes to find it based on subject matter, and even then, the only references to it I've come across are within an anthology of the author's other short stories.

I'm also interested in who here may have read it. Quick synopsis:

Constantin is a man sentenced to death, and lives in a secluded villa (pretty much under house arrest) with his eventual executioner. He knows that at a certain time that only the executioner is aware of, he'll be killed. The two go through the same motions every day ("Waiting or Godot" ind of thing) and play chess.

Anyone know of a place I can find this story online to read? My library has it, but I thought I'd take (what I thought was) the easier route.
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