Aaron L. Kolom 11 min read

Heartfelt prayers deserve an answer, but the answer may come in a peculiar way, as Mrs. Frisbee finds when an electric blanket materializes, neatly folded, on her kitchen table.

Aaron L. Kolom's 1963 story spins a warm, wry social-SF tale from prayers that are answered a little too literally. Light, charming golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story about a kindly woman whose midnight thanks-and-requests start producing very tangible results.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Pederson