Since yesterday's post was sort of longish, today's will be short. In fact, my intro will be much longer than the featured story. (Which is par for the course with me.)
Larry Niven is a science fiction author, probably best known for his Ringworld series. But he's been a quite prolific author, and one of my favorites of his is The Magic Goes Away series. I could be wrong, but I believe that the story I'm going to repeat here is part of that series. I went and lent ALL of my Larry Niven books to RJM (who'd better be taking good care of them!), so I can't look this story up. I am therefore working entirely from memory, as I also couldn't find the specific story in a very quick Google search.
Anyway, it was called something like Unfinished Story. It may have had a number after it because, again--if I am recalling correctly--he may have published three or so of these unfinished stories, which then became numbers 1, 2, 3, etc.
But then, I could be completely wrong on any or all of this. I'm sure that, if and when they read this, REB and RJM can correct my mistakes. So, I really hope that I can get Mr. Niven's story right, because I'm working entirely from a memory based on reading the story probably 25-plus years ago. It was one of my favorite short stories that I ever read, so I tried to commit it to memory. I believe that it may be the shortest story ever published, at least by a major publishing house.
So hear goes:
Unfinished story
There are some things man was not meant to know.
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The End
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