Daniel Keyes. Touch (№ 422956)

Don't people make gods out of things that help with childbirth, change life, or cause death? Why not worship Roentgen, the new radiation god? To the invisible and jealous god who avoids noise and din - the same one who, instead of throwing thunder and lightning from the sky, quietly scatters his disastrous dust. Someday he will fashion a statue of the god Roentgen, scattering dust with his hand, sowing the seeds of death and change. And at his feet people will suffer, crucified on three-blade crosses - symbols of Irradiation, Destruction and Death.