James McKimmey: Stories

Sound the fanfare! Beat the drums! Shout hosannas! Here he comes....

Cutter demanded more and more and more efficiency--and got it! But, as in anything, enough is enough, and too much is...

Daylight sometimes hides secrets that darkness will reveal--the Martian's glowing eyes, for instance. But darkness has other dangers....

Why don't you find yourself some nice little American girl," his father had often repeated. But George was on Venus. and he loved pale green skin. and globular heads and most of all, George loved Gistla.

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice--but how do you argue with a boulder which neither sees nor hears?

There's a song that says "it's later than you think" and it is perhaps lamentable that someone didn't sing it for Henry that beautiful morning....

The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and--best of all--nobody had to work. What more could anyone want?