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    The Very Black
    The Very Black
    The Very Black
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    The Very Black

    By Dean Evans

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Very Black - Dean Evans

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      Title: The Very Black

      Author: Dean Evans

      Release Date: March 10, 2010 [EBook #31586]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe Aug-Sept 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Anders was pretty sure he was going to die. No one had yet flown the new-style jet job and lived to tell the tale. A story both chilling and heart-warming that shows us how bravely the human equation can operate when the chips are stacked against it.

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      Jet test-pilots and love do not mix too happily as a rule—especially with a ninth-dimensional alter ego messing the whole act.

      There was nothing peculiar about that certain night I suppose—except to me personally. A little earlier in the evening I'd walked out on the Doll, Margie Hayman—and a man doesn't do that and cheer over it. Not if he's in love with the Doll he doesn't—not this doll. If you've ever seen her you'll give the nod on that.

      The trouble had been Air Force's new triangular ship—the new saucer. Not radio controlled, this one—this one was to carry a real live pilot. At least that's what the doll's father, who was Chief Engineer at Airtech, Inc., had in mind when he designed it.

      The doll had said to me sort of casually, Got something, Baby. She called me baby. Me, one eighty-five in goose pimples.

      Toss it over, Doll, I said.

      No strings on you, Baby. She'd grinned that little one-sided grin of hers. No strings on you. Not even one. You're a flyboy, you are, and you can take off or land any time any place you feel like it.

      Stake your mom's Charleston cup on that, I said.

      She nodded. Her one-sided grin seemed to fade slightly but she hooked it up again fast. A doll—like I said. This was the original model, they've never gone into production on girls like her full-time.

      She said, "Therefore, I've got no right to go stalking with a salt shaker in one hand and a

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