The Pygmy Planet
  • Published:
    Aug-2014
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  • Main Genre:
    Science Fiction
  • Pages:
    30
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Nothing ever happens to me! Larry Manahan grumbled under his breath, sitting behind his desk at the advertising agency which employed his services in return for the consideration of fifty a week. All the adventure I know is what I see in the movies, or read about in magazines. What wouldn't I give for a slice of real life!Unconsciously, he tensed the muscles of his six feet of lean, hard body. His crisp, flame-colored hair seemed to bristle; his blue eyes blazed. He clenched a brown hammer of a fist.Larry felt himself an energetic, red-blooded square peg, badly afflicted with the urge for adventure, miserably wedged in a round hole. It is one of the misfortunes of our civilization that a young man who, for example, might have been an excellent pirate a couple of centuries ago, must be kept chained to a desk. And that seemed to be Larry's fate.Things happen to other people, he muttered. Why couldn't an adventure come to me?He sat, staring wistfully at a picture of a majestic mountain landscape, soon to be used in the advertising of a railway company whose publicity was handled by his agency, when the jangle of the telephone roused him with a start.Oh, Larry??? came a breathless, quivering voice.Then, with a click, the connection was broken.
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    • Anson Street Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1023272326
    • ISBN13: 9781023272322



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