The Gift Bearer

Charles L. Fontenay

The yellow sands of the spaceport stretched, glaring and empty, in every direction.

Charles L. Fontenay

Lauria Swept down the spiral staircase in regal dignity, and wished there were someone there to witness her entrance.

Charles L. Fontenay

General Beauregard Courtney sat in his staff car atop a slight rise and watched the slow, meshing movement of his troops on the plains south of Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Charles L. Fontenay

BY CHARLES FONTENAY _It was a race between the tortoise and the hare.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything was perfectly swell.

Edgar Allan Poe

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Heinrich Hoffmann

[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848.

Edgar Allan Poe

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.