Mars (Planet) -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
So I keep watching all the incoming tourists like you. Someday I
figure I'm going to run into a decolorized Earthman. They won't be
able to stay away any more than the other peoples of the Galaxy. Old
Mother Earth keeps dragging them back even though they've been gone
for over a thousand years. Don't get the idea they want to see Mars.
It's Earth that draws them. And it'll draw an Earthman's kids. And I
figure that if I could read Redman's mind, I can read theirs, too even
though I haven't read a thought since. It figures, does it not?
Hey! Hold on! There's no need to run. All I want to do is collect a
fifty year old bill--plus interest. Your folks owe me that much.
THE END
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