Tea Tray in the Sky

By Evelyn E. Smith

Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and always unforgettable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781515450030

Evelyn E. Smith

Evelyn E. Smith (25 July 1922 – 4 July 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and mysteries, as well as a compiler of crossword puzzles.

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Tea Tray in the Sky

by Evelyn E. Smith

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Tea Tray in the Sky is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-5003-0

Tea Tray in the Sky

Visiting a society is tougher than being born into it. A 40 credit tour is no substitute!

The picture changed on the illuminated panel that filled the forward end of the shelf on which Michael lay. A haggard blonde woman sprawled apathetically in a chair.

Rundown, nervous, hypertensive? inquired a mellifluous voice. In need of mental therapy? Buy Grugis juice; it’s not expensive. And they swear by it on Meropé.

A disembodied pair of hands administered a spoonful of Grugis juice to the woman, whereupon her hair turned bright yellow, makeup bloomed on her face, her clothes grew briefer, and she burst into a fast Callistan clog.

I see from your hair that you have been a member of one of the Brotherhoods, the passenger lying next to Michael on the shelf remarked inquisitively. He was a middle-aged man, his