The Delegate from Venus

Henry Slesar

Ron Carver's day was beginning strangely.

Henry Slesar

ILLUSTRATOR NOVICK _Everybody was waiting to see what the delegate from Venus looked like.

Henry Slesar

Would it work?

Henry Slesar

He wondered if I'd told her everything, and, faltering, I had to admit that I hadn't. She was wonderful--but human.

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.