# Shipping Clerk

Author: Samachson, Joseph, 1906-1980; Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990 [Illustrator]

Genre: Science Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50796

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Shipping+Clerk+Samachson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If there had ever been a time when Ollie Keith hadn't been hungry, it was so far in the past that he couldn't remember it. He was hungry now as he walked through the alley, his eyes shifting lusterlessly from one heap of rubbish to the next. He was hungry through and through, all one hundred and forty pounds of him, the flesh distributed so gauntly over his tall frame that in spots it seemed about to wear through, as his clothes had. That it hadn't done so in forty-two years sometimes struck Ollie as in the nature of a miracle.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/shipping-clerk-50796/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/shipping-clerk-50796/chapters/2/index.md)