"Perhaps You Mistake Our Intention"

"The Watchers."
By Roger Dee (Roger D. Aycock, 1914-2004).
First appearance: Planet Stories, September 1951.
Short short short story (4 pages).
Online at SFFAudio (HERE) (PDF).

"It had taken him ten years to find them—to even convince himself that they existed. Now Manson was ready to kill!"

He thinks he knows why things go wrong in the world and he has the cure, but in reality he doesn't have a clue . . .

Comment: Would-be reformers, take note.

Typo: "faning his anger".

Resources:
- Roger Dee is well represented on the World Wide Wobblie: Wikipedia (HERE), the SFE (HERE), the ISFDb (HERE), and with a collection of his stories at Project Gutenberg (HERE).
- Wikipedia has the latest data about Pluto in fact (HERE) and fiction (HERE).
- Last year we featured another story involving what used to be called The Ninth Planet (HERE).