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    The Next Time We Die
    The Next Time We Die
    The Next Time We Die
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    The Next Time We Die

    By Robert Moore Williams

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Next Time We Die - Robert Moore Williams

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      Title: The Next Time We Die

      Author: Robert Moore Williams

      Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32683]

      Language: English

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      The Next Time We Die

      By ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories February 1957. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      We journey to far places, driven on by ideals. We fight for lost causes, sacrificing our lives because the things we fight for seem worthwhile. But are we right? Are they worth being killed over? Perhaps. Then again, maybe we'll know better—The Next Time We Die

      Now in the nooning, with the sun high overhead and the shadows huddling dispiritedly at their sides, the threat that existed in this wild desert was completely invisible.

      The girl, Nora Martin, said, What I don't understand is why we were so stupid as to come here in the first place. We could have stayed on Earth and had homes and families. Becoming conscious of what she had said, she hastily corrected herself. I mean, each of us could have had a home and a family.

      Pike McLean shifted the muzzle of the Rangeley just a trifle, adjusting it so that the cross hairs in the periscope sight covered the exact spot where he expected, and hoped, the next native would appear. He tried to dig the sand out of his eyes.

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