Stories tagged ssc-nov09

Cripple

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"I know," Timothy explained, "he can't use it. He's a cripple." No one else seemed to understand.

Like Flying

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She was OK just as she was. She didn’t have to like the things other people liked. She was happy being who she was, even if it seemed boring. Or, she knew she wasn’t really happy, but the word was close enough, and she was the one who got to decide

Aliens

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Going on seventy-three--the last five lived in the blessed peace of a widow--and now all of a sudden fate hits me with an alien fallen out of the sky.