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    For Every Man A Reason
    For Every Man A Reason
    For Every Man A Reason
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    For Every Man A Reason

    By Patrick Wilkins

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    For Every Man A Reason
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    Patrick Wilkins

    Patrick Wilkins is a retired Pacific Northwest TV journalist, and although he has been both a news director and anchor, he is perhaps known best for his many years on the road as feature reporter for the ABC affiliate station KATU in Portland, Oregon. “Kinda like Charles Kuralt with a smaller territory.”

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      For Every Man A Reason - Patrick Wilkins

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      Title: For Every Man A Reason

      Author: Patrick Wilkins

      Release Date: May 8, 2010 [EBook #32293]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction November 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Illustrated by Paul Orban

      BY PATRICK WILKINS

      FOR EVERY MAN A REASON

      To love your wife is good; to love your State is good, too.

      But if it comes to a question of survival, you have to

      love one better than the other. Also, better than

      yourself. It was simple for the enemy; they

      knew which one Aron was dedicated to....

      The thunder of the jets died away, the sound drifting wistfully off into the hills. The leaves that swirled in the air returned to the ground slowly, reluctantly.

      The rocket had gone.

      Aron Myers realized that he was looking at nothing. He noticed that his face was frozen into a meaningless smile. He let the smile slowly dissolve as he turned to look at his wife.

      She was a small woman, and he realized for the first time how fragile she was. Her piquant face, framed by long brown, flowing hair, was an attractive jewel when set on the plush cushion of civilization. Now her face, set in god-forsaken wilderness, metamorphosed into the frightened mask of a small animal.

      They were alone.

      Two human beings alone on this wild, lonely planet. Aron's mind suddenly snapped from that frame of reference—his subjective view of their position—to the scale of galaxies. It was a big planet to them, but it was a marble in the galaxy that man had discovered and claimed, and was now fighting with himself to retain. This aggregate of millions of pebbles was wracked with the violence of war, where marbles were more expendable than the microbes that dwelt on them.

      The two walked hand in hand away from the meadow where the ship had been. The feeble wind snuffled at the scraps of paper and trash, the relics of man's passing.

      They walked up the hill to their station, the reason for their being on this wayside planet.

      Aron thought about the scenery around them. The compact, utilitarian building that was the station did not seem out of place against the bleak landscape. The landscape did not clash or conform to its location—it just didn't give a damn whether there was a building there or not.

      Aron and Martha, his wife, took their time. They had an abundance of that elusive quantity known as time at this lonely outpost. The trail up to the station was rough, with rocks and weeds tearing at them. Aron resolved that that

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