On a sunny afternoon of rockets and beetle-cars, the children of the neighbourhood are wild about a new game. Seven-year-old Mink runs in and out of the house collecting pots and tools, chattering about a friend called Drill who says the grown-ups are dangerous because they won’t believe in Martians. Her mother smiles and lets her play.
A short, chilling tale from Planet Stories, 1947, later collected in The Illustrated Man. Download the free EPUB.