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    The Dark Goddess
    The Dark Goddess
    The Dark Goddess
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    The Dark Goddess

    By Richard S. Shaver

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Dark Goddess - Richard S. Shaver

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dark Goddess, by Richard Sharpe Shaver

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Dark Goddess

      Author: Richard Sharpe Shaver

      Release Date: June 12, 2010 [EBook #32784]

      Language: English

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      The Dark Goddess

      By Richard S. Shaver

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Deep within her caverns the great mer-woman longed for death to end her loneliness. But then came a voyager from space—a man—also lonely....

      The black-emerald water swirled and broke in many silver gleamings. From the misty center of the pool rose a vast but beautiful head. The long dripping hair was not hair, but had a rippling life of its own. The great lonely eyes and wide scarlet mouth were far more lovely than any human's. The gleaming green shoulders and shapely long arms ended in graceful webbed fingers. The red tipped breasts were proud, naked mounts where beauty lived forever. The pillaring waist—the strong-arched hips that did not divide into legs but into two great serpentine drivers—ended in the wide tail fins of a fish.

      The dark sea-scented lapping green water was circled by tiers of marble seats, where many human people sat, their eyes upon the throne-seat into which the tremendous female figure vaulted in one powerful thrust from the water, as a tall wave uncurls effortlessly upon a golden beach.

      The people bowed their heads and waited for her words, and she sat for a long time looking on them sadly and somehow conveying that they had long disappointed her. When her voice came, a great bell of meaning in the sea-cavern, the humans began to weep, for they knew now in their hearts they had failed her.

      "My people, when the first of you came here I welcomed you. I was glad, for I had been long alone. I never knew my own

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