Jay Clarke 14 min read

A one-sided correspondence of ever-angrier letters from a jilted London fiancée to a fiancé who won't write back, as Roger, in New York, is very much occupied with something else.

Jay Clarke's 1954 story tells a wry psi-and-social-SF tale largely through letters. Sharp, clever golden-age SF. Read it for an inventive epistolary story whose escalating one-way romance conceals a stranger truth about what Roger is really up to.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Sandy Kossin