Doll-Friend

He had a beautiful wife. But the girl he really loved came out of a slot machine — warm and soft and clinging and unalive.

Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.