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Beyond the Ultra-Violet

Frank M. Robinson

The treatments began immediately. First, adaptation of vision to a dark room, like those used for flyers during the war. Then the drops of black liquid that the professor had invented, slowly spreadin..

Come Into My Brain!

Robert Silverberg

The Dimellian was larger than life and twice as ugly. It was an idealized, self-glorified mental image Harrell faced. The captured Dimellian was about five feet tall, thick-shouldered, with sturdy, co..

Get Out of My Body!

Tom W. Harris

On Clinch Street, little Sally Odum was walking home from school. She turned down an alley for a shortcut, and there she saw the toy. It was a black, fringed globe, a little larger than a grapefruit. ..

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 3, September 1841

George R. Graham

Our retiring habits, in this particular, being thus understood, it will be seen at once that we have no design of arguing the point with the Old Song which we have quoted at the head of this paper. We..

Grey Wethers - A Romantic Novel

V. Sackville-West

A peculiar silence reigned over the village; no children shouted, and no young men or girls passed down the street with that exact air of energy and enterprise that youth alone can produce. Somnolence..

Migration of Birds (1950)

Frederick Charles Lincoln

The migrations of birds were probably among the first natural phenomena to attract the attention and intrigue the imagination of man. Recorded observations on the subject date back nearly 3,000 years,..

Prisoner of War

Randall Garrett

There wasn't much point in trying to break away, now. Marten was trapped—thoroughly and unarguably. The little scout ship didn't carry a tenth the power he would need to break from the grasp of the bi..

The New Year's carol

Johanna Spyri

Their boy was born on Saint Sebastian’s day and so received the name of his patron Saint, but was commonly called Barty, and the little sister who came two years later was for the same reason named Fr..