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The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann
by Joel Chandler HarrisThe happiest, the most vivid, and certainly the most critical period of a man’s life is combined in the years that stretch between sixteen and twenty-two. His responsibilities do not sit heavily on him, he has hardly begun to realize them, and yet he has begun to see and feel, to observe and absorb; he is for once and for the last time an intereste..
The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears
by Keith BennettThe Commander's voice went droning on, but Hague's fatigued brain registered it as mere sound with no words or meaning. He'd been dazed since the crash. Like a cracked phonograph, his brain kept playing back the ripping roar of jet chambers blowing out with a sickening lurch that had thrown every man in the control room to the floor. The lights had..
Warrior-Maid of Mars
by Alfred CoppelThe small room was dark but for the flickering light of a single ef-lamp that burned on the bare table between the two long rows of black-hooded figures. The thin dry air was surcharged with the tenseness of a tautly drawn cord ... a strangler's cord. A sentence of death had been passed in silence. Now, the executioners balloted, still in silence, ..
Madmen of Mars
by Erik FennelAll this time we've kept quiet as a whole cageful of mice. And with good reason. During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate t..
Bratton's Idea
by Manly Wade WellmanOld Bratton, janitor at the studios of Station XCV in Hollywood, was as gaunt as Karloff, as saturnine as Rathbone, as enigmatic as Lugosi. He was unique among Californians in professing absolutely no motion picture ambitions. Once, it is true, a director had stopped him on the street and offered to test him for a featured role, but old Bratton had..
Tickets to Paradise
by D. L. JamesIt all started at Bandar Shahpur. You see, I'm a railroad construction man. Our job was finished, and the whole outfit was waiting at Bandar Shahpur, which is on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, for a boat to take us back to America.And there, out of nowhere, this Dr. Champ Chadwick showed up. He seemed to be starving for a little good old ..
Betsy Baker!
by John Maddison MortonBetsy Baker! or, Too Attentive by Half; A Farce, in One Act by John Maddison Morton.John Maddison Morton was an English playwright who specialised in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and Cox. He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces...
Equation for Time
by R. R. WinterbothamThe secret of time travel has been discovered. No one has traveled through time as yet, although man has explored the universe for more than twenty light years from the sun. But the day of time travel is not far distant. It had simple beginnings. All great things began in simple ways. Newton and the apple were the beginnings of modern understanding..