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Sugar Plum

by Reginald Bretnor

2019-03-28 18:51:35

At the waterfall's edge, flowering trees twisted their roots in the cliffside, and a fresh wind scattered plumes of its spray through their leaves. Taller trees, bell-blossomed, fanned out from the pool, gave way to a meadow, and followed the course ... Read more
At the waterfall's edge, flowering trees twisted their roots in the cliffside, and a fresh wind scattered plumes of its spray through their leaves. Taller trees, bell-blossomed, fanned out from the pool, gave way to a meadow, and followed the course of the stream down a broadening valley—among faceted boulders of translucent quartz, rose-pink, green, and golden, sheltering small, lustrous spires of fragile fungi. On the meadow stood the house, the latest in Second Victorian, complete with carved plastic false-front in early Schenectady Gothic. The Buttons themselves, with Cousin Aurelia, stood in front of it. They wore long linen dusters and sun helmets with heavy mosquito veils. They were going exploring. Less

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File size283.378 KB
Print pages155
PublisherPublic Domain
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1463896220
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Reginald Bretnor
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Reginald Bretnor (born Alfred Reginald Kahn; July 30, 1911 – July 22, 1992)[1] was an American science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short sto...

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