A Pail of Air

Fritz Leiber

The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation!

Fritz Leiber

CHAPTER 1 When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Fritz Leiber

CHAPTER 1 _Any man who saw you, or even heard your footsteps must be ambushed, stalked and killed, whether needed for food or not.

Fritz Leiber

Women will always go on trying to attract men ...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.