Omega, the Man

Omega, the Man

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Omega, the Man by Lowell Howard Morrow

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1933

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All Omega's eloquence could not dissuade her. So, after the sun had set and the dry cold had chilled the hot rocks, they set out along the shore of the lake and looked eagerly out over the still water for a sight of their enemy. Nothing disturbed the silvery surface of the water. Crouching behind a mass of coral they waited, but throughout the long, still night they watched without reward, for nothing moved within their range of vision. The stars, wonderfully large and brilliant in that rarefied atmosphere, seemed to be the only link between them and the unknown. Only their own hurried breathing and the muffled thumps of their wildly beating hearts broke the silence. And as the sun rose again above the dead plains, weary and discouraged they returned to the ship.

While keeping up a bold front for Thalma's sake, Omega's heart was sad, for he well knew that unless they could vanquish that marine monster they were doomed. That such a dreadful creature had come to them from the mists of

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A peculiar little story. The last human couple on an aged and arid Earth decide to build their house near the shore of the last pool of water in the Pacific Ocean. They are evolved and their science has come to resemble magic, so the story--from the 1930s--is not dated at all, since it has no references to the time it was written.

It has a happy ending.