Routine for a Hornet

Don Berry

They dropped the raider on the night side, less than thirty miles from Thanlar, the capitol city.

Don Berry

Alarm bells filled the wardroom, screaming off the metal walls and filling the room with their flat, metallic clang.

Don Berry

The day was still no more than a ragged streak of red in the east; the pre-dawn air was sharply cold, making Johnny Youngbear's face feel slightly brittle as he dressed quietly in the gray bedroom.

Don Berry

_Phoenix I_ belled out smoothly in the region of a G-type star.

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.