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The Creature from Cleveland Depths, by
Fritz Reuter Leiber This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: The Creature from Cleveland Depths
Author: Fritz Reuter Leiber
Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23164]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer's apprentice ... a tale of--
THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS
By FRITZ LEIBER
Illustrated by WOOD
"Come on, Gussy," Fay prodded quietly, "quit stalking around like a neurotic bear and suggest something for my invention team to work on. I enjoy visiting you and Daisy, but I can't stay aboveground all night."
"If being outside the shelters makes you nervous, don't come around any more," Gusterson told him, continuing to stalk. "Why doesn't your invention team think of something to invent? Why don't you? Hah!" In the "Hah!" lay triumphant condemnation of a whole way of life.
"We do," Fay responded imperturbably, "but a fresh viewpoint sometimes helps.