Short Story
The Blonde, the Time Machine and Johnny Bell
- by Kenneth L. Harrison
- Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940
Johnny Bell, a reporter for the Clarion, expected to get a story out of Pop Keller’s Curiosity Shop. What he didn’t expect to find were a blonde who looks like Betty Grable who cons him into buying a used time machine.
This was a $25 contest winner story, but Harrison, 23 at the time and living in Portland, Oregon, never published another story.
This was a $25 contest winner story, but Harrison, 23 at the time and living in Portland, Oregon, never published another story.
But the strangest thing he had ever seen was the queer-looking mechanical apparatus in the center of the window. Johnny Bell’s gray eyes narrowed in perplexity as he read the advertising card atop it:
TIME MACHINE
FOR SALE—CHEAP
