Transcriber’s note:

This story was published in Amazing Stories, June 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

[p 56]

As if one mystery of creation weren't enough,
there was the myth of . . .

the Demi-Urge

By THOMAS M. DISCH

From DIRA IV
To Central Colonial Board

There is intelligent life on Earth. After millennia