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The Three Quarters Eaten Dessert - Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life #4 - cover

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The Three Quarters Eaten Dessert - Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life #4

Cora Buhlert

Publisher: Pegasus Pulp Publishing

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Summary

Bertha and Alfred, married for twenty years, enjoy a truly science fictional life in the twenty-first century. But in spite of all the technological marvels surrounding them, an argument about sharing a dessert at an upscale restaurant escalates and threatens their friendship with their neighbours, the Hoppenstedts. 
This parodistic piece is a mundane short story of 6000 words or approximately 20 print pages, written in the style of science fiction’s “golden age” of the 1940s and 1950s. With bonus recipe.
Available since: 07/02/2016.

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