Short Stories

The Trap

von Betsy Curtis

She had her mind made up—the one way they'd make her young again was over her dead body!

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Cube Root of Conquest

von Rog Phillips

What actual result is there in the act of conquest? What is its cube root?

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Death of a B.E.M.

von Livingston Berkeley

The writer hated to create bug-eyed monsters, but they hated him too!

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Mr. President

von Stephen Arr

He had been overwhelmingly elected. Messages of sympathy poured in, but they couldn't help ... nothing could.

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Shock Treatment

von Stanley Mullen

"I'll give you the cure for the most horrible disease," Songeen said. "The sickness of life itself." Newlin replied, "Fine. But first, give me a couple of minutes to kill your husband. Then we'll go on from...

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Feet Of Clay

von Phillip Hoskins

Life is pretty strange when a god who is good and benevolent must prove that he has FEET OF CLAY.

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The Anglers of Arz

von Roger D. Aycock

In order to make Izaak Walton's sport complete, there must be an angler, a fish, and some bait. All three existed on Arz but there was a question as to which was which.

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Black Amazon of Mars

von Leigh Brackett

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering...

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Action & Adventure

Ye of Little Faith

von Rog Phillips

It matters not whether you believe or disbelieve. Reality is not always based on logic; nor, particularly, are the laws of the universe....

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Direct Wire

von Clee Garson

Mort and Mike got strange calls on this phone; they didn't come through Central!

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The Holes and John Smith

von Edward W. Ludwig

He was something out of a nightmare but his music was straight from heaven. He was a ragged little man out of a hole but he was money in the bank to Stanley's four-piece combo. He was—whoops!...

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The Test Colony

von Winston K. Marks

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?

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