Charles E. Fritch

Name: Once Upon a Monbeast
Author: Charles E. Fritch

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“Once Upon a Monbeast”, is a work by Charles E. Fritch. It explores elements such as fiction, monbeast and Donald MacDonald.

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ I protested. "You said the readers wouldn't believe in you, so you don't exist for them."
"Science-fiction is growing," the monbeast said. "Everyday more people are getting to realize that there is more to the world than those things they see around them. They believe what they read in love stories and detective stories. Science-fiction is next."
"Suppose I don't want to create more BEMs?" I said. "Suppose I take up saxophone playing or something and leave science-fiction alone." ”

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ I have read your manuscripts with considerable care and am sorry to report that you seem to have no talent for writing and especially none for science-fiction.
I would suggest you turn your energies to something else—saxophone playing, stamp collecting—anything else. If you insist upon writing, however, have you considered fillers?
Best wishes,
Donald MacDonald.
What I should have done was go out into the country, and let the gathering steam blow its lid. But I didn't. If I'd gotten an automobile in motion, I would have run down the nearest boy scout just to see his blood spatter. ”

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ But why stop here? I thought. There were more checks where that came from. If I could sell one story, I could sell two, and then three, and four. So I did. In a way, it was something like digging my own grave. You don't understand that now, but in a little while you'll see the reason why.
After I had haunted the newsstand for about three months, the great day came. THE MONBEAST was the last story in the magazine (at the time I thought they really should have featured it) and my name was misspelled on the contents page, but it was a great day just the same. A day of triumph. ”

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ The monbeast shrugged massive green shoulders. "The whole thing's much too technical for me to worry about. All I know is us BEMs exist, and we get to your dimension via science-fiction."
"That 'power of mind' MacDonald was talking about?" I said, shuddering a bit.
"Something like that. Other forms of fiction deal with things native to your world. Science-fiction regards us BEMs as real, so while we don't ordinarily exist here, there's a stress created in the barrier between us, and we come through." ”

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ The monbeast isn't such a bad fellow after all, once you get to know him. Neither are the other BEMs hanging around my house. Oh, yes, there are others, lots of them. Hanging from the rafters. Under chairs. In coffee cups. Everywhere. It's an occupational hazard, you know.
Chances are, though, you wouldn't be able to see them—unless you're a real gone science-fiction fan, and even then maybe not. But someday you will.
Someday you'll be sitting in your favorite chair reading your favorite science-fiction magazine, and you'll look up.... ”

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ Here's a little tip. When you lay down this magazine, turn around slowly. Have you ever had the feeling that something was going on behind your back but when you turned around you saw nothing? What's that? You think maybe you've got that feeling right now?
Listen, on second thought, now that you know, maybe you better not turn around. Take this as a gag. A nice big laugh. You'll be a lot better off that way.
What you don't know can't hurt you.... ”

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Charles E. Fritch, Once Upon a Monbeast

“ He waved an annoyed hand. "Competition, hell! There's always room for more. You don't understand," he went on, screwing his face into a look of determination. "I'm trying to save your peace of mind, your sanity perhaps. The mind is a great and powerful thing, sometimes dangerous. All these things—these alien creatures that a science-fiction author creates—"
"Yes?" ”

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