Stirring Science Stories: The Complete Fiction by Various

Author:Various [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jerry eBooks
Published: 2021-12-12T21:00:00+00:00

UNFORTUNATELY, I stepped into a bear-trap while wandering through the woods, and when the trapper returned, he found me weak with hunger. I don’t quite recall what happened after that. I remember a net, and an awakening in a cage.

Just now I’m in a menagerie. I’ve been sold to a circus, and am on exhibition as a freak. There’s no way at all of telling anybody that I’m human.

By dint of great efforts, I have managed to secure pencil and paper, and, by gripping the pencil in my teeth, I’ve been able to write this, secretly at night, when no one is watching. Now that it is completed, I shall leave it on the floor of my cage and, at the proper time, push it out among the audience. But I fear everyone will think it’s a hoax—that some publicity man has written it and slipped it into my prison. People believe I am a sport—a freak. I can’t explain, except by painfully putting down my story on paper. It may be that someone will believe me, and help me reach the dimension-gate that exists somewhere above the ruins of Gracken House.

The whole business was Uncle Panzer’s fault, and I don’t see why I should have to suffer. Won’t somebody please believe me and, at least, make an investigation? I’m not really a gracken. It’s all the fault of my relatives!

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