
INDIRECTION
Elwar Forell spends his evenings in bustling cafés, polishing a collection of fairy‑tale stories that have become best‑sellers. To the casual reader they are whimsical adventures, but Forell knows each narrative is a carefully layered code, a way to slip concealed information into the public sphere. His method, taught by a mysterious mentor, is to hide truth behind imagination, never stating facts outright.
The conversation with his old friend, the critic Charo Andorra, reveals the growing risk of that hidden agenda. Andorra senses a pattern in Forell’s tales that hints at something far beyond ordinary myth—perhaps even contact with superior beings. As the two men debate the purpose of the stories, the possibility of an inevitable confrontation with those who might uncover the secret looms, promising consequences that could ripple through generations.
Language
en
Duration
~43 minutes (42K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2007-11-05
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1910–2001
A pulp-era science fiction writer with a soldier’s background, he brought military experience and a practical streak to many of his stories. His work appeared in major genre magazines and later in novels built from that short fiction.
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