Quiet Please
Kevin Scott
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Description
Groverzb wants only peace and quiet in Kevin Scott's short tale Quiet Please, from Worlds of If in November 1961. He is willing to scream his head off to get it, as the blurb jokes. A big porter lugs his piano in and warns him he will not like the planet.
The natives stand no more than three feet tall and never talk aloud. That silence is just why Groverzb, who loathes conversation, has come. His house is a gutted block once home to the Little People. By evening a violet glow falls, small folk dash below, and no voice breaks the calm he craves.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kevin Scott |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |