A writer wakes up, and he is in Los Angeles. He is leaning on a railing on a balcony, large enough for two people and a potted planet, overlooking a swimming pool with clouds in it like the sky. He has a cup of coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other, although he does not smoke. The smoke from the cigarette is drifting towards the city to ( Read more... )

Phoenix Kane and the Levanian Betrayal
a short story by George McFly
published in Sizzling Space Stories, April 1957

( We join our hero, Intergalactic Agent Phoenix Kane, in a holding cell on the Levanian spaceship... )

( They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely )

( Just a hypothesis )

( Nature red in tooth and tentacle )

( You, you look to the stars for answers... )

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( Waiting in the Sky )