Richard Rein Smith 6 min read

There are many ways a husband can settle certain problems with his wife, murder included, but this one is even more drastic.

Richard Rein Smith's 1961 story sits with the narrator as his old friend George complains, yet again, about his hypochondriac wife Helen, building toward a solution stranger than homicide. Wry, dark social SF with a twist. Read it for a sardonic golden-age tale about marital misery and the extreme measures it can drive a man to.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

6 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).