Amazing Stories of Suspense #S[B]

In "The Worst Thirst," two brothers take matters into their own hands when their neighbor’s newly dug well seems to have sapped the water from their own, leading them to reroute the flow back to their land. What begins as a quiet victory turns uneasy when a water delivery man drops a chilling detail: the neighbors’ well has been poisoned by pesticides, and they’ve been relying on outside supplies.

In a curious twist of interplanetary commerce, a small-town post office stumbles upon a bizarre delivery system: boxes that shrink people mid-transit and restore them to full size only upon arrival. The mystery unravels into a clever scheme by a resourceful Martian entrepreneur trying to outpace Earth’s rail and air travel with a radical new method of transport.

When a lone space pilot touches down on a desolate asteroid, he’s startled by a voice—clear, desperate, and seemingly coming from nowhere—begging for help. As he realizes the voice isn’t from a person but from the asteroid itself, he must confront the strange, sentient nature of the rock he’s landed on.