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Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hun...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly ri...

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I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if ...

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She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... ...

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A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do ...

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But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could n...

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Gene WolfeAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at o...

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Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. H...

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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

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Rita DoveOn the Bus With Rosa Parks