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Falling Apart Edgar was the local crazy man, and Tristene was told to avoid Edgar and his property at all costs. Which is exactly the wrong thing to say to a curious girl who sees adventure on the other side of a fence.
"The fence was patched in the night, but in an unexpected way. The plank was fastened down with springy hinges, and Tristene could pull it open. Which is what she did. And she was free to climb through, which is what she kept herself from doing. It was school time. She had to sit in class until the classroom dissolved back into being just a little white VR closet, and that's when she could finally slip outside again. Her parents were still working inside their closets; they were too busy to bother with lies, she reasoned. And there was no force in the universe that could keep Tristene from taking the three big steps across her bluegrass lawn, Edgar's camouflaged gateway practically flinging itself open for her. In daylight, his yard looked smaller. Shaggy young pines pretended to be a forest, and the little pond wasn't much deeper than a puddle. But this time as she crept up to the water's edge, she saw a flash of colour, greener than green, and a pair of long, long legs that were being dragged underwater by their slimy bug-fed body."
Robert Reed is a prolific SF author who has been nominated for many awards, and who once won the Hugo for his novella, "A Billion Eves." As a boy, he had a plan to fill a nearby woodland with tiny ponds full of neat fish. The plan never worked out. But as an adult, Robert has populated his backyard with tiny ponds full of neat fish.
Genre: Science Fiction
"The fence was patched in the night, but in an unexpected way. The plank was fastened down with springy hinges, and Tristene could pull it open. Which is what she did. And she was free to climb through, which is what she kept herself from doing. It was school time. She had to sit in class until the classroom dissolved back into being just a little white VR closet, and that's when she could finally slip outside again. Her parents were still working inside their closets; they were too busy to bother with lies, she reasoned. And there was no force in the universe that could keep Tristene from taking the three big steps across her bluegrass lawn, Edgar's camouflaged gateway practically flinging itself open for her. In daylight, his yard looked smaller. Shaggy young pines pretended to be a forest, and the little pond wasn't much deeper than a puddle. But this time as she crept up to the water's edge, she saw a flash of colour, greener than green, and a pair of long, long legs that were being dragged underwater by their slimy bug-fed body."
Robert Reed is a prolific SF author who has been nominated for many awards, and who once won the Hugo for his novella, "A Billion Eves." As a boy, he had a plan to fill a nearby woodland with tiny ponds full of neat fish. The plan never worked out. But as an adult, Robert has populated his backyard with tiny ponds full of neat fish.
Genre: Science Fiction
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