Proof of the Pudding by Robert Sheckley. Short summary

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The only survivor on Earth has gained the ability to create living things. One day he met a girl and could not believe that she was real. She convinced him not to hesitate, but to enjoy life.

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A captain of the Earth Defense Forces hid from a world war in space and survived. When he returned, he found that he was the only human.

He soon realized that he could create and created a tree on the poisoned earth. Since then he began to create food, buildings, small birds and animals, but he never tried to create humans.

One day he met a girl. She told him that she had hidden on his ship and had also survived the war.

He cannot believe that she is real. The girl proves otherwise.

The man creates a beautiful city for her, where they ride on the pond. The captain keeps trying to find out if the girl is real and suspects that he created her.

The man tries to find out the girl’s last name, but the girl replies that it doesn’t matter, because a woman always takes her husband’s last name. And she is a woman.