Moderan by David R. Bunch - And So White Witch Valley




AND SO WHITE WITCH VALLEY

All is well and life is good with Moderan man - he has his Stronghold 10, his robot army underlings, his new-metal mistress. But those scientists had to go and pour cold water on such perfection - they create new steel-flesh strip wives for their Moderan men. What??!! Are you crazy??!!!

Moderan man is not a happy steely-flesh strip camper. We read: "My case was not unique. All over Moderan that spring, when we were beginners-new and the plans not set-mold, they came walking in, struggling, falling down, getting up to come on, most of them with one aim in view - not to let that disappearing surviving rat husband get away with a thing. I'M YOUR WIFE, seemed, in their minds, to say it all and leave no questions of any kind. Doom was final; doom was sealed-down doom. That gray twilight terror-life of wife-husband husband-wife (WEEAAOOOHH YEEAAOOOHH OOHH OHH) must never be changed, not even by the ending of a world."

Obviously, drastic measures must be taken. This is a man's world with man's concerns and man's wars and man's everything else. Drastic action is taken, a solution is found. The only concern is, will those Moderan steely wives keep in their place.

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