Bryce Walton - Sci Fi

https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ Under the new system of the Managerials, the fight was not for life but for death! And great was the ingenuity of The Victor. If you believe that the future's nothing but a happy wonderland of jetpacks and flying cars, think again. In Bryce Walton's chilling short story "The Victor," the powers that be have perfected the art of imprisonment, creating a hellish experience for the dissidents who have fallen into disfavor with the current regime. Charles Marquis had a fraction of a minute in which to die. He dropped through the tubular beams of alloydem steel and hung there, five thousand feet above the tiers and walkways below. At either end of the walkway crossing between the two power-hung buildings, he saw the plainclothes security officers running in toward him. He grinned and started to release his grip. He would think about them on the way down. His fingers wouldn't work. He kicked and strained and tore at himself with his own weight, but his hands weren't his own any more. He might have anticipated that. Some paralysis beam freezing his hands into the metal. Bryce Walton was born in Blythedale, Missouri, the son of Paul Dean Walton and Golda Powers on May 31st, 1918 and died February 5, 1988. He was an American pulp fiction writer. In Public Domain First Published 1953 Ovi eBook Publishing 2024