Winston Marks: Stories

They were the perfect servants--they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing?

The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look--just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!

Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible. So he lived alone in his big cash-vault. Alone, except for John....

These gorgeous fanatics were equally at home with men, murder, or matrimony, and they used all three with amazing success.

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms. only two guests to a room. but accommodating 5200 guests--all at the same time!... Floor please?

Murt's Virus was catastrophically lethal, but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of--it loved its victims to death!

There was a reason why his scripts were smash hits--they had realism. And why not? He was reliving every scene and emotion in them!

He was tired of people--a "human interest" columnist, who specializes in glamorizations of the commonplace and sordid is likely to get that way. So. this starship seemed to offer the ideal escape from it all

Tabby was peculiar, of course, but seemed harmless: just a little green fly that couldn't even protect itself from ordinary spiders. So the spiders fed, and grew, and fed, and grew....

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?