SUNFIRE!
By EDMOND HAMILTON
Illustrated by FINLAY
He was walking in the pine grove, with the resinous smell of the trees in his nostrils. Once he had met a smell vaguely like it, far away from Earth. Forget about that, a voice said in his mind, but he would never forget.
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Amazing Stories September 1962.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Everything in the old house seemed just the same as it had been before he went to space.
It was incredible, thought Hugh Kellard, standing in the front hall and looking around the silent, sunlit rooms, how little it had changed. The life was gone out of it now, all the people and voices and the comings and goings when his grandfather still lived and he had visited here. But that had been long ago, and he was amazed that so much remained still untouched.
"Like travelling into the past," thought Kellard, "to come back to this part of Earth."