Judas Ram

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Judas Ram

by Sam Merwin

EN·~40 minutes

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A sleek, other‑worldly estate serves as a gilded cage for three women and a reluctant observer, Roger Tennant. The house’s strange geometry—heptagonal core, contrasting wings of Southern classicism, solar‑machine modernity, and an ancient, multicolored spire—hints at a reality far beyond ordinary Earth. Beneath a sky that glows without sun or moon, the landscape itself is uncanny: a green, cellophane‑like lawn, trees of impossible bark, and a brook that flows over non‑mineral stones.

Tennant, dressed only in oddly unwrinkling tartan shorts, navigates the uneasy dynamics among the captives—Dana, haunted and defiant; Eudalia, a weary mother of twins; and Olga, the youngest, pregnant and silent. Their forced coexistence is laced with resentment, reluctant attraction, and the ever‑present question of who—or what—controls their fate. As they move deeper into the estate’s bizarre interior, the line between luxury and imprisonment blurs, setting the stage for a tense psychological contest that will test each character’s resolve.

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Language

en

Duration

~40 minutes (38K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2016-01-27

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Sam Merwin

Sam Merwin

1910–1996

A sharp, versatile figure from the pulp era, he helped shape mid-century science fiction both as a writer and as an editor. His best-known work blends mystery, time travel, and parallel worlds, and his editorial eye raised the bar for several influential magazines.

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