The Leech

Robert Sheckley

Illustrated by EMSH _Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand.

Robert Sheckley

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced Science Fiction Stories 1953.

Robert Sheckley

Chapter One His return to consciousness was a slow and painful process.

Robert Sheckley

_It was a joyous journey Anders set out on ...

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.