BABY, YOU WERE GREAT by Kate Wilhelm

Originally published in a collection of the author’s works entitled The Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction in 1968. Re-published in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction anthology called Alpha 5 in 1974, then again in a 1995 anthology called The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Read by Darrell T. Smith II for my channel Quasar Spectra. Support me with a caffeinated contribution: