Expanded Universe

FOREWORD

This story was tailored in length (1500 words) for Colliers as a short - short. I then tried it on the American Legion magazine - and was scolded for suggesting that the treatment given our veterans was ever less than perfect. I then offered it to several SF editors - and was told that it was not a science fiction story. (Gee whiz and Gosh wollickers! - space warps and FTL are science but therapy and psychology are not. I must be in the wrong church.)

But this story does have a major shortcoming, one that usually is fatal. Try to spot it. I will put the answer just after the end.