id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29446 Sheckley, Robert Beside Still Waters .txt text/plain 1447 159 94 As the years passed, the air pump began to labor a little as it Looking up, Mark could see the sheer blackness of the river of space, Mark began to tape new responses into Charles. When he said, "How does it look?" Charles would answer, "What do you think of girls?" Mark would ask, sitting on a packing case "I dreamed of a girl named Martha once," Charles would say. It was always night on Martha, but Mark broke up his time into mornings, In time, Mark built more complicated conversations into Charles. Mark was sardonic, Charles And in time, Mark forgot he had built the answers into Charles. Time passed unnoticed by the stars, and the air pump hissed and clanked Mark was fixing it constantly, but the air of Martha became From his bunk Mark saw the stars for the last time. "The stars ..." Mark said. ./cache/29446.txt ./txt/29446.txt