devilsend

Updated: May 22, 2025

He'd need both, the gun as much as the light New York had more than its share of vicious criminals, to whom this power-failure would be a perfect devilsend. Handing Doris the light, he let her take his left arm. Together, they left the room and went down the hallway to the stairs and the long walk to the darkened street below, into a city that had suddenly been cut off from its very life-energy.

H. Beam Piper - Day of the Moron