Original text from Worlds Beyond, December 1950 Pasta text copied from lesvampires.org __________________________________________________ The handsome j.g. and the pretty nurse held out against it as long as they reasonably could, but blue Pacific water, languid tropical nights, the low atoll dreaming on the horizon--and the complete absence of any other nice young people for company on the small, uncomfortable parts boat--did their work. On June 30th they watched through dark glasses as the dazzling thing burst over the fleet and the atoll. Her manicured hand gripped his arm in excitement and terror. Unfelt radiation sleeted through their loins.