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- GenresScience Fiction
20 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1953
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June 30, 2022
Entertaining listening 🎶🔰
Another will written fantasy futuristic adventure thriller short story by Alan E. Nourse about a criminal who escapes from prison and ends up on a train 🚆 which takes him too where he wants to go. It ends quickly. I would recommend this novella to anyone looking for a quick interesting read. Enjoy the adventure of reading all kinds of novels 👍🔰 and books 📚. 2022 😮⏰
Another will written fantasy futuristic adventure thriller short story by Alan E. Nourse about a criminal who escapes from prison and ends up on a train 🚆 which takes him too where he wants to go. It ends quickly. I would recommend this novella to anyone looking for a quick interesting read. Enjoy the adventure of reading all kinds of novels 👍🔰 and books 📚. 2022 😮⏰
January 23, 2025
Future shock discomfitures a model citizen.
maybe
March 6, 2014ILLUSTRATED BY SUSSMAN
Opening: The three shots ripped through the close night air of the prison, sharply, unbelievably. Three guards crumpled like puppets in the dead silence that followed. The thought flashed through Krenner's mind, incredibly, that possibly no one had heard.
He hurled the rope with all his might up the towering rock wall, waited a long eternity as the slim strong line swished through the darkness, and heard the dull "clank" as the hook took hold at the top. Like a cat he started up, frantically, scrambling, and climbing, the sharp heat of the rope searing his fingers. Suddenly daylight was around him, the bright unearthly glare of arc lights, the siren cutting in with its fierce scream. The shouts of alarm were far below him as he fought up the line, knot after knot, the carefully prepared knots. Twenty seconds to climb, he thought, just twenty seconds—
Opening: The three shots ripped through the close night air of the prison, sharply, unbelievably. Three guards crumpled like puppets in the dead silence that followed. The thought flashed through Krenner's mind, incredibly, that possibly no one had heard.
He hurled the rope with all his might up the towering rock wall, waited a long eternity as the slim strong line swished through the darkness, and heard the dull "clank" as the hook took hold at the top. Like a cat he started up, frantically, scrambling, and climbing, the sharp heat of the rope searing his fingers. Suddenly daylight was around him, the bright unearthly glare of arc lights, the siren cutting in with its fierce scream. The shouts of alarm were far below him as he fought up the line, knot after knot, the carefully prepared knots. Twenty seconds to climb, he thought, just twenty seconds—
July 15, 2015
This story really showcases what makes short stories great.
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