Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live VoiceA collection of 14 short stories. |
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... turned infidels against him with the faithful - he professed to believe that in possibly a single night - sea per thousand , say , one of its quarter - billion swimmers ( that is , one swimmer in two hundred fifty billions ) achieved a ...
... turned infidels against him with the faithful - he professed to believe that in possibly a single night - sea per thousand , say , one of its quarter - billion swimmers ( that is , one swimmer in two hundred fifty billions ) achieved a ...
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... turned up . But it was my birthmark Rosa pointed out : the notion had taken her that its three lobes resembled the wings and abdomen of a bee in flight . " Oh boy , " Konrad sighed . " Nah , it is a bee ! A regular bee ! I declare ...
... turned up . But it was my birthmark Rosa pointed out : the notion had taken her that its three lobes resembled the wings and abdomen of a bee in flight . " Oh boy , " Konrad sighed . " Nah , it is a bee ! A regular bee ! I declare ...
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... turned out - gave me a gold piece and bade me report to him in Agamemnon's scullery when I came to town , against the chance the whim should take Her Majesty to hear me again . Despite the goldhair wonder that rested on my chest as I ...
... turned out - gave me a gold piece and bade me report to him in Agamemnon's scullery when I came to town , against the chance the whim should take Her Majesty to hear me again . Despite the goldhair wonder that rested on my chest as I ...
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