A Case of Sunburn

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.

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.