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And so before the summer was over, we gave up. The kids were too busy indulging their new selves and quit playing make-believe out in the woods. And Gretchen and I were lost in our private worlds of self-disgust and conjugal disharmony. By Christmas we’d forgotten about the portal, and the clearing began to fill in. We did what people do: we heaved
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That’s what would have happened to your freezer bag if it hadn’t escaped.
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Fantasy isn’t meliorative. The happy ending, however enjoyable to the reader, applies to the characters only; this is fiction, not prediction and not prescription.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe of Heaven
She spoke of how the water caught the light, how people were drawn to its flash and froth, “a zone of freshness,” she said, “of play.”
Sofia Samatar • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Affirmation and illusion, bound up tighter than two snakes in the same egg.
Sarah Gailey • Magic for Liars: A Novel
centrifugal