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Hidden Country
by Henry OyenGeorge Chanler’s offer of a position as literary secretary of his Arctic expedition came to me one fine May morning when I was sitting at my desk, glooming from an eighteenth-story height down upon the East River, and dreading to begin the day’s work.I had sat so for many mornings past. I was not happy; I was a failure. I was thirty years old, had ..
Repeat Performance
by Rog PhillipsHe sensed my stare. I looked quickly down at my paper and casually took a sip of coffee. But I wasn't interested in the news now. Out of the corner of my eye I studied the little man. He wasn't more than five feet tall, very slim, and very erect. I got the strange impression of looking at a small giant. Then I realized what caused that impression. ..
X Marks the Asteroid
by Ross RocklynneThe Unterzuyder map was out of hiding. Relayed on a grapevine that spanned the planets, the news caught on big in Marsport. Bigger Bailes sat at a beer-bottle-colored glass desk in his underworld retreat, announcing his intent to claim the reward money that for eighty-five years had been piling up at compound interest in the Terra-First National Ba..
Blessed Event
by Henry FarrellGinny nodded and moved toward the entrance to the hall. "I'd better see if he's all right," she said. "You really shouldn't have yelled at him." Lester watched broodingly as she left the room. For a moment his gaze remained darkly fixed, then moved back and down to the toes of his shoes. He sighed again, and the lines of worry, as though of sh..
No-Time-Land - A Story for Girls and Boys
by M. J. C. FultonHe was just dropping off to sleep, when his eyes seemed to wander to the open window, where the moonbeams were dancing in, as if they had come to see what sort of a room it was, and what the inmate was like. They are inquisitive little things, you know; both moonbeams and sunbeams. They like to get into all the odd dark corners, and if people are d..
The Hunter Hercules
by Harry St. GeorgeIt was a beautiful scene. Not a cloud marred the vast blue dome of heaven. Autumn reigned supreme in the Lone Star State, where brave Houston fought, and valiant Bowie fell at the Alamo. Near the Comanche ground on the far north-western border of the State we would bring the reader on this bright, cheerful morning in October.The prairie which, a mo..
Raw Material
by Dorothy Canfield FisherRaw Material is a collection of short stories written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.Raw MaterialUncle Giles“What Goes Up...”Old Man WarnerThe Ideas of M. BrodardFairfax HunterProfessor Paul Meyer“While All the Gods...”Scylla and CharybdisArt AtmosphereColonel ShaysA Great LoveSupply and DemandUncle EllisGod’s CountryInheritanceThirty Years After“..
The Cosmic Junkman
by Rog PhillipsThe black eyes glanced down. The long-fingered hand began to retrieve the cards, then paused. Vilbis' almost classic features darkened with anger. With an effort he became calm. A secret inner amusement made little lights in his eyes as he looked up at his two captors again."You know," Bill Ford said thoughtfully, "sometimes I think you must have s..