Henry Farrell 39 min read

Green-eyed, red-haired Toffee lounges against a tree, arm draped around Marc's neck, and lazily demands a kiss, but Toffee, it turns out, lives only in Marc's own imagination.

Henry Farrell's 1947 story is a genial fantasy-and-social-SF romp starring a man's dream-woman come to life. Light, funny, charming golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful tale of a fellow whose imaginary sweetheart has a very real, very mischievous mind of her own.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Rod Ruth