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The Roundabout

Unlike fascist, robotic traffic lights where we are told when to stop and go, the roundabout allow…

The Tiara

It took no excessive sensitiveness to beauty to make me literally gasp at the strange, unearthly s…
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The Shut-Eye train

Come, my little one, with me! There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall; In you…
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Go fly a kite

With tuppence for paper and strings, You can have your own set of wings With your feet on the ground …

Campbell Country

Shifting the setting of a Cosmic Horror Story to, for instance, England presents problems. As the …
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The Great Eucatastrophe

This “joy” which I have selected as the mark of the true fairy-story (or romance), or as the seal …

Awake, O sleeper

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stil…
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Bedroom still life

Her first Easter card from her grandmother; her first pair of shoes from Wendy; a banker's lamp…

A Divine Foot in the Door

What seems absurd depends on one’s prejudice. Carl Sagan accepts, as I do, the duality of light, w…

Good Old Times

“I wish the good old times would come again,” she said, “when we were not quite so rich. I do not …

A clean handle on a dirty bucket

Even when the will is perverse – even when a creature is enthralled and captivated by one great si…

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