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diff --git a/29975.txt b/29975.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..927431c --- /dev/null +++ b/29975.txt @@ -0,0 +1,701 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of One Martian Afternoon, by Tom Leahy + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: One Martian Afternoon + +Author: Tom Leahy + +Illustrator: Brush + +Release Date: September 13, 2009 [EBook #29975] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONE MARTIAN AFTERNOON *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +_She was sweet, gentle, kind--a sort of Martian Old +Mother Hubbard. But when she went to her cupboard ..._ + + + ONE + MARTIAN + AFTERNOON + + By Tom Leahy + + Illustrated by BRUSH + + +The clod burst in a cloud of red sand and the little Martian sand dog +ducked quickly into his burrow. Marilou threw another at the aperture in +the ground and then ran over and with the inside of her foot she scraped +sand into it until it was filled to the surface. She started to leave, +but stopped. + +The little fellow might choke to death, she thought, it wasn't his fault +she had to live on Mars. Satisfied that the future of something was +dependent on her whim, she dug the sand from the hole. His little yellow +eyes peered out at her. + +"Go on an' live," she said magnanimously. + +She got up and brushed the sand from her knees and dress, and walked +slowly down the red road. + +The noon sun was relentless; nowhere was there relief from it. Marilou +squinted and shaded her eyes with her hand. She looked in the sky for +one of those infrequent Martian rain clouds, but the deep blue was only +occasionally spotted by fragile white puffs. Like the sun, they had no +regard for her, either. They were too concerned with moving toward the +distant mountains, there to cling momentarily to the peaks and then +continue on their endless route. + +Marilou dabbed the moisture from her forehead with the hem of her dress. +"I know one thing," she mumbled. "When I grow up, I'll get to Earth an' +never come back to Mars, no matter what!" + +She broke into a defiant, cadenced step. + +"An' I won't care whether you an' Mommy like it or not!" she declared +aloud, sticking out her chin at an imaginary father before her. + +Before she realized it, a tiny, lime-washed stone house appeared not a +hundred yards ahead of her. That was the odd thing about the Martian +midday; something small and miles away would suddenly become large and +very near as you approached it. + +The heat waves did it, her father had told her. "Really?" she had +replied, and--_you think you know so doggone much_, she had thought. + + * * * * * + +"Aunt Twylee!" She broke into a run. By the Joshua trees, through the +stone gateway she ran, and with a leap she lit like a young frog on the +porch. "Hi, Aunt Twylee!" she said breathlessly. + +An ancient Martian woman sat in a rocking chair in the shade of the +porch. She held a bowl of purple river apples in her lap. Her +papyrus-like hands moved quickly as she shaved the skin from one. In a +matter of seconds it was peeled. She looked up over her bifocals at the +panting Marilou. + +"Gracious, child, you shouldn't run like that this time of day," she +said. "You Earth children aren't used to our Martian heat. It'll make +you sick if you run too much." + +"I don't care! I hate Mars! Sometimes I wish I could just get good an' +sick, so's I'd get to go home!" + +"Marilou, you _are_ a little tyrant!" Aunt Twylee laughed. + +"Watcha' doin', Aunt Twylee?" Marilou asked, getting up from her frog +posture and coming near the old Martian lady's chair. + +"Oh, peeling apples, dear. I'm going to make a cobbler this afternoon." +She dropped the last apple, peeled, into the bowl. "There, done. Would +you like a little cool apple juice, Marilou?" + +"Sure--you betcha! Hey, could I watch you make the cobbler, Aunt Twylee, +could I? Mommy can't make it for anything--it tastes like glue. Maybe, +if I could see how you do it, maybe I could show her. Do you think?" + +"Now, Marilou, your mother must be a wonderful cook to have raised such +a healthy little girl. I'm sure there's nothing she could learn from +me," Aunt Twylee said as she arose. "Let's go inside and have that +apple juice." + +The kitchen was dark and cool, and filled with the odors of the +wonderful edibles the old Martian had created on and in the Earth-made +stove. She opened the Earth-made refrigerator that stood in the corner +and withdrew an Earth-made bottle filled with Martian apple juice. + +Marilou jumped up on the table and sat cross-legged. + +"Here, dear." Aunt Twylee handed her a glass of the icy liquid. + +"Ummm, thanks," Marilou said, and gulped down half the contents. "That +tastes dreamy, Aunt Twylee." + +The little girl watched the old Martian as she lit the oven and gathered +the necessary ingredients for the cobbler. As she bent over to get a +bowl from the shelf beneath Marilou's perch, her hair brushed against +the child's knee. Her hair was soft, soft and white as a puppy's, soft +and white like the down from a dandelion. She smiled at Marilou. She +always smiled; her pencil-thin mouth was a perpetual arc. + +Marilou drained the glass. "Aunt Twylee--is it true what my daddy says +about the Martians?" + +"True? How can I say, dear? I don't know what he said." + +"Well, I mean, that when us Earth people came, you Martians did inf ... +infan ..." + +"Infanticide?" Aunt Twylee interrupted, rolling the dough on the board a +little flatter, a little faster. + +"Yes, that's it--killed babies," Marilou said, and took an apple from +the bowl. "My daddy says you were real primitive, an' killed your babies +for some silly religious reason. I think that's awful! How could it be +religious? God couldn't like to have little babies killed!" She took a +big bite of the apple; the juice ran from the corners of her mouth. + +"Your daddy is a very intelligent man, Marilou, but he's partially +wrong. It is true--but not for religious reasons. It was a necessity. +You must remember, dear, Mars is very arid--sterile--unable to sustain +many living things. It _was_ awful, but it was the only way we knew to +control the population." + + * * * * * + +Marilou looked down her button nose as she picked a brown spot from the +apple. "Hmmph, I'll tell 'im he's wrong," she said. "He thinks he knows +so damn much!" + +"Marilou!" Aunt Twylee exclaimed as she looked over her glasses. "A +sweet child like you shouldn't use such language!" + +Marilou giggled and popped the remaining portion of the apple in her +mouth. + +"Do your parents know where you are, child?" Aunt Twylee asked, as she +took the bowl from Marilou's hands. She began dicing the apples into a +dough-lined casserole. + +"No, they don't," Marilou replied. She sprayed the air with little +particles of apple as she talked. "Everybody's gone to the hills to look +for the boys." + +"The boys?" Aunt Twylee stopped her work and looked at the little girl. + +"Yes--Jimmy an' Eddie an' some of the others disappeared from the +settlement this morning. The men're afraid they've run off to th' hills +an' the renegades got 'em." + +"Gracious," Aunt Twylee said; her brow knitted into a criss-cross of +wrinkles. + +"Oh, I know those dopes. They're prob'ly down at th' canals--fishin' or +somep'n." + +"Just the same, your mother will be frantic, dear. You should have told +her where you were going." + +"I don't care," Marilou said with unadulterated honesty. "She'll be all +right when I get home." + +Aunt Twylee shook her head and clucked her tongue. + +"Can I have another glass? Please?" + +The old lady poured the glass full again. And then she sprinkled sugar +down among the apple cubes in the casserole and covered them with a +blanket of dough. She cut an uneven circle of half moons in it and put +it in the oven. "There--all ready to bake, Marilou," she sighed. + +"It looks real yummy, Aunt Twylee." + +"Well, I certainly hope it turns out good, dear," she said, wiping her +forehead with her apron. She looked out the open back door. The +landscape was beginning to gray as heavier clouds moved down from the +mountains and pressed the afternoon heat closer, more oppressively to +the ground. "My, it's getting hot. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we +didn't get a little rain this afternoon, Marilou." She turned back to +the little girl. "Tell me some more about your daddy, dear. We Martians +certainly owe a lot to men like your father." + +"That's what he says too. He says, you Martians would have died out +in a few years, if we hadn't come here. We're so much more civi ... +civili ..." + +"Civilized?" + +"Yeah. He says, we were so much more 'civ-ilized' than you that we saved +your lives when we came here with all our modern stuff." + +"Well, that's true enough, dear. Just look at that wonderful Earth +stove," Aunt Twylee said, and laughed. "We wouldn't be able to bake an +apple cobbler like that without it, would we?" + + * * * * * + +A rumble of thunder shouldered through the crowded hot air. + +"No. He says, you Martians are kinda likeable, but you can't be trusted. +He's nuts! _I_ like you Martians!" + +"Thank you, child, but everyone's entitled to his own opinion. Don't +judge your daddy too severely," Aunt Twylee said as she scraped spilled +sugar from the table and put little bits of it on her tongue. + +"He says that you'd bite th' hand that feeds you. He says, we brought +all these keen things to Mars, an' that if you got th' chance, you'd +kill all of us!" + +"Gracious," said Aunt Twylee as she speared scraps of dough with the +point of her long paring knife. + +"He's a dope!" Marilou said. + +Aunt Twylee opened the oven and peeked in at the cobbler. The aroma of +the simmering apples rushed out and filled the room. + +"Could I have some cobbler when it's done?" Marilou asked, her mouth +filling with saliva. + +"I'm afraid not, child. It's getting rather late." + +The thunder rumbled again--a little closer, a little louder. + +The old lady washed the blade of the knife in the sink. "Tell me more of +what your father says, dear," she said as she adjusted the bifocals on +her thin nose and ran her thumb along the length of the knife's blade. + +"Oh, nothin' much more. He just says that you'd kill us if you had th' +chance. That's the way the inferior races always act, he says. They want +to kill th' people that help 'em, 'cause they resent 'em." + +"Very interesting." + +"Well, it isn't so, is it, Aunt Twylee?" + +The room was filled with blinding blue-white light, and the walls quaked +at the sound of a monstrous thunderclap. + +The old Martian glanced nervously at the clock on the wall. "My, it _is_ +getting late," she said as she fondled the knife in her hands. + +"You Martians wouldn't do anything like that, would you?" + +"You want the truth, don't you, dear?" Aunt Twylee asked, smiling, as +she walked to the table where Marilou sat. + +"'Course I do, Aunt Twylee," she said. + +Her scream was answered and smothered by the horrendous roar of the +thunder, and the piercing hiss of the rain that fell in sheets. In great +volumes of water, it fell, as though the heavens were attempting to wash +the sins of man from the universe and into non-existence in the void +beyond the void. + + * * * * * + +Marilou lay beside the other children. Aunt Twylee smiled at them, +closed the bedroom door and returned to the kitchen. + +The storm had moved on; the thunder was the faint grumbling of a +pacified old man. What water fell was a monotonous trickle from the +eaves of the lime-washed stone house. Aunt Twylee washed the blood from +the knife and wiped it dry on her apron. She opened the oven and took +out the browned cobbler. Sweet apple juice bubbled to the surface +through the half moons and burst in delights of sugary aroma. The sun +broke through the thinning edge of the thunderhead. + +Aunt Twylee brushed a lock of her feathery white hair from her moist +cheek. "Gracious," she said, "I must tidy up a bit before the others +come." + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _If Worlds of Science Fiction_ July + 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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