Stopover Planet
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Description
Robert E. Gilbert wrote Stopover Planet, a tale whose headnote reverses a bakery round: early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service, but on this particular morning the service was reversed. At 2:34 in the morning, Patrolman Louis Whedbee leaves the Zip Cab station, arch supports squeaking and night stick swinging, and walks east to the call box at Sullivan and Cherokee.
Whedbee reaches for the box, then swears softly and steps off the curb, excusing himself. He holds that a policeman must stay courteous always, even arresting a school-zone speeder. This is not a speedster. A huge man stands on top of a truck cutting down the stop light, in what looks like long underwear sewn from unlikely black fur dotted with tiny red spots.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |