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The Moon is Green, by Fritz Reuter Leiber
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Title: The Moon is Green
Author: Fritz Reuter Leiber
Illustrator: David Stone
Release Date: August 10, 2009 [EBook #29662]
Language: English
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THE MOON IS GREEN
By FRITZ LEIBER
Illustrated by DAVID STONE
Anybody who wanted to escape death could, by paying a very simple price--denial of life!
"Effie! What the devil are you up to?"
Her husband's voice, chopping through her mood of terrified rapture, made her heart jump like a startled cat, yet by some miracle of feminine self-control her body did not show a tremor.
Dear God, she thought, he mustn't see it. It's so beautiful, and he always kills beauty.
"I'm just looking at the Moon," she said listlessly. "It's green."
Mustn't, mustn't see it. And now, with luck, he wouldn't. For the face, as if it also heard and sensed the menace in the voice, was moving back from the window's glow into the outside dark, but slowly, reluctantly, and still faunlike, pleading, cajoling, tempting, and incredibly beautiful.
"Close the shutters at on