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The Plagiarist from Rigel IV

Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 40s, 50s, and 60s

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The Plagiarist from Rigel IV

By: Evan Hunter
Narrated by: Scott Miller
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Writing stories was hard work - unless Fred had a typewriter like "Reggie" that could write by itself! Nonsense? Fred agreed until he met the plagiarist from Rigel IV.

I bought the typewriter in a pawn shop on Third Avenue. The pawn shop proprietor was a balding old man with a walrus mustache.

"How much?" I asked him. "Five dollars," he said casually.

I glanced at him skeptically. The machine was a Remington Noiseless, with italics, probably worth a little over a hundred new, and it couldn't have been more than a year or two old.

"How much?" I asked. "Five dollars, is what I said. Five." He held up the fingers of his widespread hand. "Five. One-two-three...."

"What's wrong with it?" I asked suspiciously.

The old man shrugged. "Something has to be wrong with it? Listen, young man, don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

©2022 Scott Miller (P)2022 Scott Miller First Contact Science Fiction
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