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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when i...

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Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in chi...

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...

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Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor...

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How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you ...

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I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I clim...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

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Richard PowersThe Time of Our Singing

Look at what I wrote at the beginning of this memoir. Have I caught anything at all of the extraordi...

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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