Mate in Two Moves

Winston Marks

Illustration by William Ashman  

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5



Murt's Virus was catastrophically lethal, but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of—it loved its victims to death!

Dr. Sylvester Murt, the resident pathologist at High Dawn Hospital, is content in his bachelorhood. But when his assistant, Dr. Phyllis Sutton, decides to investigate a surge in marriages across the nation, it spells trouble for both of them.

This classic science fiction short story by Winston Marks (1915-1979) first appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in May 1954.
























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