0 Plus 1951-08-xx (xx) The Insect

I have received word of a strange invention. What it can do will amaze France and strike terror to the world. Thousand plus! Science fiction adventures from the world of tomorrow. Years beyond 2018. Two thousand plus presents.

The insect, most darling, it means I'll probably get that research appointment the universe. Oh, I can hardly believe it, George. Oh, here's the telegraph of the Dean of Science himself. I'll take the jet plane in about two hours and be there in plenty of time for my meeting with astronauts. I know. I'll get a bomb of champagne and we'll celebrate a dinner

tonight. Well, that's nice, but I'm not sure I'll be home for dinner. The meeting may go on. Maybe I'll have to stay overnight, take the plane back in the morning. Well, then we'll have champagne for breakfast. Well, it's not hope too much. Hey, I've got to gather my papers and things, but I'm going to get to the airport in time. You'd better help me.

And will lavatory? The wife of a budding scientific genius shouldn't act like that. But George, I'm frightened when I go in there. No, I'm sent. They won't hurt you. No, I can't threaten anything. That's all I say out of your life.

I've got to have help with these papers. What do you want me to do? Cancel the meeting? Because my wife is afraid of the work I do? Oh, I'm sorry, darling. It's just... Hold on. Hold on. I'll try to do it myself.

I'm glad to be angry, George. If they were ordinary insects, tiny ones were... maybe it was a Christmas. Even with what I've done to them, they're not so big. So I've taken a spider, a house behind a rock, and by means of my growth ray, I've made them larger.