Everett B. Cole: Stories

Most useful high explosives, like ammonium nitrate, are enormously violent. once they're triggered. But they will remain seemingly inert when beaten, burned, variously punished--until the particular shock required comes along....

There are some people that it is extremely unwise to cross. and the fireworks start when two such people cross each other!

Man has developed many a deadly weapon. Today, the weapon most effective in destroying a man's hopes and security is the file folder. and that was the weapon Morely knew and loved. But there was something more potent to come.

The best way to keep a secret is to publish it in a quite unbelievable form--and insist that it is the truth.

There are devices a high-level culture could produce that simply don't belong in the hands of incompetents of lower cultural evolution. The finest, and most civilized of tools can be made a menace.

A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture....

A strong man can, of course, be dangerous, but he doesn't approach the vicious deadliness of a weakling--with a weapon!