One Step From Earth by Harry Harrison

Author:Harry Harrison
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2011-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Water gushed continually from a durcrete spout and splashed into a drain below. The thin man secured a

plastic bag over the spout, and when it filled he reached into a deep opening in the wall beside the spout

and took out a blocky package of some kind. Jomfri waited until he had removed the filled bag and

vanished around the curve of the dome before he went forward. The sibilance of the splashing water was

the only sound in the hazy silence, and his throat was suddenly dry. He buried his head under the stream,

let it run into his mouth and over his face and across his hands. When he pulled away, gasping for air, he

felt much better. Wiping the water from his eyes, he pushed his head into the opening. It was almost

featureless. A shiny, worn metal plate was inset to his right, and a hole, no bigger around than his arm,

vanished up ward into darkness from the farther end of the pit. The word PRESS, almost completely

rubbed away, was printed above the plate. The only letters he had seen since he arrived here.

Hesitatingly, he put his thumb to the cool metal. There was a distant susurration and a rising, scraping

sound. Jomfri pulled his hand out quickly as a plastic-wrapped package shot down out of the opening

and plopped softly into the rear of the niche. He took it out and saw that it was a bag of mealpaste.

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