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Fanfare, November 1950

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And it still lived!
But only for a moment; for it sensed the professor's hand coming down to pluck it from its bed of earth. And it thought, "The fools! I only wanted PEACE!" And so it died. And that is the end of the story. I know. I was there. And who am I? Only the tiny parasite crouched between the Kamina's extra-vertabal stalks. Afraid you wouldn't know about that. but you've killed my host, and so I'll be seeing You. In The Flesh.
The End

ERROR
by AL LEVERENTZ

He took a soft and shining strand
Of glowing metal in his hand
And spun it round a carbon pole
Then closed and sealed the quartzite bowl.
A touch upon a burnished switch,
A dazzling flame, the like of which
Was never seen on Earth before,
Made Stygian shadows on the floor.
The quartzite chamber glowed and fused.
He moved the switch he first had used
To stop the holocaust of light
And render impotent its might.
But his resistance was for naught.
The blazing light, in being fraught,
Shot out a tendril, blazing white
To send the man in reeling fright
Back from the thing now done.
The searing, roaring, midget sun
Engulfed him in its cruel embrace
And flaming light before his face
Climaxed his life and doomed his race.

The mighty walls of plasti-steel
That would not Hell's own fury feel,
Before the onslaught of light
Became first red, then blazing white;
And spidery cracks spread through its mass.
They fell away to show green grass
And softly blowing, lofty trees
That withered fast in agonies
Of searing, burning, tearing light
That struck them like some monstrous blight.
The light moved on, and in it's path
There lay but death to tell its wrath,
And all the world and all the men
Against this thing beyond their ken
Sought useless refuge, all in vain,
For Earth would see no morn again.
And far across the depths of space
A watcher in some distant place
Might marvel at the cosmic black,
Where nine worlds swung in soundless track,
To see a blazing sun
Where in the past there'd been but one.
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And it still lived! But only for a moment; for it sensed the professor's hand coming down to pluck it from its bed of earth. And it thought, "The fools! I only wanted PEACE!" And so it died. And that is the end of the story. I know. I was there. And who am I? Only the tiny parasite crouched between the Kamina's extra-vertabal stalks. Afraid you wouldn't know about that. but you've killed my host, and so I'll be seeing You. In The Flesh. The End ERROR by AL LEVERENTZ He took a soft and shining strand Of glowing metal in his hand And spun it round a carbon pole Then closed and sealed the quartzite bowl. A touch upon a burnished switch, A dazzling flame, the like of which Was never seen on Earth before, Made Stygian shadows on the floor. The quartzite chamber glowed and fused. He moved the switch he first had used To stop the holocaust of light And render impotent its might. But his resistance was for naught. The blazing light, in being fraught, Shot out a tendril, blazing white To send the man in reeling fright Back from the thing now done. The searing, roaring, midget sun Engulfed him in its cruel embrace And flaming light before his face Climaxed his life and doomed his race. The mighty walls of plasti-steel That would not Hell's own fury feel, Before the onslaught of light Became first red, then blazing white; And spidery cracks spread through its mass. They fell away to show green grass And softly blowing, lofty trees That withered fast in agonies Of searing, burning, tearing light That struck them like some monstrous blight. The light moved on, and in it's path There lay but death to tell its wrath, And all the world and all the men Against this thing beyond their ken Sought useless refuge, all in vain, For Earth would see no morn again. And far across the depths of space A watcher in some distant place Might marvel at the cosmic black, Where nine worlds swung in soundless track, To see a blazing sun Where in the past there'd been but one. page 12