S.P. Meek

“Planetara was still in the earth’s shadow. The firmament––black interstellar space with its blazing white, red and yellow stars––lay spread around us. The moon, with nearly all its disc illumined, hung, a great silver ball, over 317 our bow quarter. Behind it, to one side, Mars floated like the red tip of a smoldering cigarillo in the blackness. The earth, behind our stern, was dimly, redly visible––a giant sphere, etched with the configurations of its oceans and continents. Upon one limb a touch of the sunlight hung on the mountain-tops with a crescent red-yellow sheen.”
― Captain S. P. Meek, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930

“Look!” he cried, staring with unbelieving eyes.
Rusty, almost through the gates of death, had heard the anguished cry of the mistress he worshipped. Death was beckoning imperatively to him, but the brave little heart would not surrender. His glazed yes opened and his hot, dry tongue went out in a feeble attempt to lick the tears away from the cheeks he loved. Colonel S.P. Meek, Rusty: A Cocker Spaniel”
― S. P. Meek