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Friday 23 October 2020

A Pail of Air By FRITZ LEIBER By mark antony raines Fantasy / Horror

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A Pail of Air By FRITZ LEIBER

By mark antony raines

Fantasy / Horror

From the days of golden dawn of horror stories from the magazines of the 30+49+50+60


Chapter 1

A Pail of Air

By FRITZ LEIBER

Illustrated by ED ALEXANDER


Galaxy Science Fiction December 1951.


The dark star passed, bringing with it

eternal night and turning history into

incredible myth in a single generation!

Pa had sent me out to get an extra pail of air. I’d just about scooped it full and most of the warmth had leaked from my fingers when I saw the thing.

You know, at first I thought it was a young lady. Yes, a beautiful young lady’s face all glowing in the dark and looking at me from the fifth floor of the opposite apartment, which hereabouts is the floor just above the white blanket of frozen air. I’d never seen a live young lady before, except in the old magazines—Sis is just a kid and Ma is pretty sick and miserable—and it gave me such a start that I dropped the pail. Who wouldn’t, knowing everyone on Earth was dead except Pa and Ma and Sis and you?

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