Nelson S. Bond 27 min read

The narrator remembers the wedding, the sabers, the banquet, and demanding again and again to kiss the bride, and then it all goes very strange indeed.

Nelson S. Bond's 1941 story spins wild comic space opera shading into horror from a spacer's boozy, blurry wedding-day memories. Fast, funny, offbeat golden-age pulp. Read it for a rollicking tale that starts drunk and disorderly at a wedding and careens into genuine bedlam.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Henry del Campo