They asked him to fight again. There would be no second chance at the crown, but a friend needed help, and it might be a second chance for the woman he...
Other Times, Other Worlds
Among these superb stories—
A Child Is Crying
— A frightening look at a seven-year-old boy whose intelligence far surpasses that of top military experts...
Flaw
— An intensely dramatic story that...
Considering the late John D. MacDonald’s obvious love for boating and the sea, it’s surprising that so few of his short stories had nautical backgrounds. This one, published in a yachting magazine just a few months after his death, makes fine...
Dale Lorin, gaunt, somber veteran of the Third World War, visionary, idealist, ex-political columnist, was deeply scarred by the two tragedies in his life. He was dangerously close to a Messiah complex in his desire to make the world of 1967 free,...
Divorce in the desert... too much money... too few men... a crazy place. There, incredibly, his lovely wife had died.
A gifted mimic, she could counterfeit another’s every subtle gesture. And therein lay...