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A message from Mars

by OpenStories

Original author: Richard Ganthony

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"A Message from Mars: A Fantastic Comedy in Three Acts" by Richard Ganthony is a play first performed in 1899. When self-absorbed Horace Parker chooses an evening of reading over escorting his fiancée to a ball, he falls asleep and encounters a mysterious visitor from Mars. The Messenger arrives with one mission: to cure Horace of his selfishness through a series of transformative visions that ultimately reduce him to a beggar, forcing him to confront his flaws.

A message from Mars, by Richard Ganthony. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #74852.

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