The Heat Wave
by Marion Ryan and Robert Ord
Two stories, millennia apart, connected by office worker Paul Feron in a 20th-century New
York heatwave and Roman gladiator Ferronius in a heatwave of his own. Time travel? Or a
dream?
— Michael Main
A dazzling streak of lightning, a mighty clap of thunder, and Paul Feron, suddenly
awakened, sprang to his feet with white face and staring eyes. What had happened? God,
what had happened?
“The Heat Wave” by Marion Ryan and Robert Ord, in Munsey’s Magazine, April 1929.