Jim Harmon 39 min read

A man who sees things that aren't there and says words he never spoke insists he's perfectly healthy, if only someone would believe him.

Jim Harmon's 1959 story is narrated by a man goaded past endurance by the phrase 'you got your health, don't you,' recalling a lifetime of uncanny experiences. Sharp, sardonic psi-powered SF about being unbelieved. Read it for a wry, unsettling golden-age tale told by a narrator no one will take at his word.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

39 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Dick Francis