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Title: Grove of the Unborn

Author: Lyn Venable

Release Date: June 22, 2009 [EBook #29205]

Language: English

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_Glamorous Lyn Venable of Dallas, Texas, makes a first appearance in
these pages (but by no means her first appearance in this field),
with this sensitive story of a young man who needn't have run. A
contributor to William Nolan's (OF TIME AND TEXAS, November, 1956,
Fantastic Universe) famous _Ray Bradbury Review_, Miss Venable
wants, very very much, to be a part, albeit small, of the comeback
of science fiction that is seen today, as she wrote us recently._

grove
of
the
unborn

_by ... LYN VENABLE_

Bheel still stood on the patio, transfixed with horror.
He heard the terrified cry "Dheb Tyn-Dall"--and then the
vigilant Guardians got him....

Tyndall heard the rockets begin to roar, and it seemed as though the
very blood in his veins pulsated with the surging of those mighty jets.
Going? They couldn't be going. Not yet. Not without him! And he heard
the roaring rise to a mighty crescendo, and he felt the trembling of the
ground beneath the room in which he lay, and then the great sound grew
less, and grew dim, and finally dissipated in a thin hum that dwindled
finally into silence. They were gone.

* * * * *

Tyndall threw himself face down on his couch, the feel of the slick,
strange fabric cold and unfriendly against his face. He lay there for a
long time, not moving. Tyndall's thoughts during those hours were of
very fundamental things, that beneath him, beneath the structure of the
building in which he was confined, lay a world that was not Earth,
circling a sun that was not Sol, and that the ship had gone and would
never come back. He was alone, abandoned. He thought of the ship, a
silver streak now in the implacable blackness of space, threading its
way homeward