![]() ![]() When he receives in the mail the maps showing the results of the fieldwork, and sees the details, he realizes the significance of the fairy stories. He takes part in the make-believe, but Helen eventually says "You're not Owen, you're just a man!" A resident of the township, hearing that Helen is upset, warns him that local men would kill him if he was not careful. In the desert, she becomes a child again and shows Campbell the places that are important in the fairy stories. She and her brother Owen used to play fairy tales in the desert she says the search area is "full of just wonderful places". He thinks there might be something in the local story, and he hires Helen, the sister of the boy found dead with a crystal of uranium oxide, as his secretary. He thinks this will blight his academic career. When fieldwork is complete, Campbell alone is told to remain, to give the impression that the project is continuing. The scientists assume the search is futile. He was one of several geology graduates assigned by the army to search an area of desert in Oregon where it was believed uranium oxide was found. The narrator, Duard Campbell, recalls an important period in his life 16 years ago, knowing that his son will ask him what he did in the war. ![]() It was among papers found after his death in 1964, and it was first published in 1966, in the anthology Orbit 1. ![]() " The Secret Place" is a short story by the American writer Richard McKenna. Short story by Richard McKenna The Secret Place ![]()
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