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Ending, by Fredric Brown and Dallas McCord Reynolds
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Title: Happy Ending
Author: Fredric Brown Dallas McCord Reynolds
Release Date: June 22, 2009 [EBook #29206]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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A world had collapsed around this man--a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting ...
happy ending
by MACK REYNOLDS and FREDRIC BROWN
Sometimes the queerly shaped Venusian trees seemed to talk to him, but their voices were soft. They were loyal people.
There were four men in the lifeboat that came down from the space-cruiser. Three of them were still in the uniform of the Galactic Guards.
The fourth sat in the prow of the small craft looking down at their goal, hunched and silent, bundled up in a greatcoat against the coolness of space--a greatcoat which he would never need again after this morning. The brim of his hat was pulled down far over his forehead, and he studied the nearing shore through dark-lensed glasses