"The Battered Face of the Man He Had Just Overpowered Kept Creeping into His Consciousness"

"Renegade."

By J. Harvey Haggard (1912-2001; the ISFDb HERE; the SFE HERE; and Dark Roasted Blend HERE).

First appearance: Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1937.

Short short short story (3 pages).

Online at The Pulpgen Archive (HERE).

   "For a moment he plummeted headlong; his universe was clouded with a strange settling pallor, like the tawny down of Her lustrous hair. A million stars enveloped it; something wrenched at every fiber of his being. He was enveloped in a flaming conflagration that materialized almost too suddenly to register the pain that tore deeply."

SHAKESPEARE assures us that "love is blind and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit." But for the renegade in our story, blind love will lead him way past any and all pretty follies and straight into disaster . . .

Main characters:

~ Ellord Trant, the Core Dwellers, Curtiss, Captain Kurdley, and Her.

Resources:

- Project Gutenberg has a small J. Harvey Haggard collection (HERE).

- The Pulpgen Archive has six of Haggard's titles available (HERE) and (HERE).

- A few years ago we looked at Haggard's "The Atombomb Clue" and "Round About Rigel" (HERE), with the latter reposted (HERE).

The bottom line:

Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.

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