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    The Last Place on Earth
    The Last Place on Earth
    The Last Place on Earth
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    The Last Place on Earth

    By Jim Harmon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Last Place on Earth - Jim Harmon

      Project Gutenberg's The Last Place on Earth, by James Judson Harmon

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      Title: The Last Place on Earth

      Author: James Judson Harmon

      Release Date: November 9, 2007 [EBook #23426]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH ***

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      Naturally an undertaker will get the last word.

      But shouldn't he wait until his clients are dead?

      THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH

      By JIM HARMON

      Illustrated by Gaughan

      I

      Sam Collins flashed the undertaker a healthy smile, hoping it wouldn't depress old Candle too much. He saluted. The skeletal figure in endless black nodded gravely, and took hold of Sam Collins' arm with a death grip.

      I'm going to bury you, Sam Collins, the undertaker said.

      The tall false fronts of Main Street spilled out a lake of shadow, a canal of liquid heat that soaked through the iron weave of Collins' jeans and turned into black ink stains. The old window of the hardware store showed its age in soft wrinkles, ripples that had caught on fire in the sunset. Collins felt the twilight stealing under the arms of his tee-shirt. The overdue hair on the back of his rangy neck stood up in attention. It was a joke, but the first one Collins had ever known Doc Candle to make.

      In time, I guess you'll bury me all right, Doc.

      In my time, not yours, Earthling.

      Earthling? Collins repeated the last word.

      The old man frowned. His face was a collection of lines. When he frowned, all the lines pointed to hell, the grave, decay and damnation.

      Earthling, the undertaker repeated. "Earthman? Terrestrial? Solarian? Space Ranger? Homo sapiens?"

      Collins decided Candle was sure in a jokey mood. "Kind of makes you think of it, don't it, Doc? The spaceport going right up outside of town. Rocketships are going to be out there taking off for the Satellite, the Moon, places like that. Reminds you that we are Earthlings, like they say in the funnies, all right."

      Not outside town.

      What?

      Inside. Inside town. Part of the spaceship administration building is going to go smack in the middle of where your house used to be.

      "My house is."

      For less time than you will be yourself, Earthling.

      Earthling yourself! What's wrong with you, Doc?

      No. I am not an Earthling. I am a superhuman alien from outer space. My mission on Earth is to destroy you.

      Collins pulled away gently. When you lived in a town all your life and knew its people, it wasn't unusual to see some old person snap under the weight of years.

      "You

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