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A short story about childhood friendship and facing mortality. Originally published in Realms Of Fantasy, April 2001. Cover illustration by Laurie Harden.
Includes complete bonus story, "After The Sky Fell."
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Rob Vagle
Rob Vagle's short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony, Heliotrope, and Strange New Worlds. He lives and writes in Tempe, AZ. He grew up in Minnesota and lived in Eugene, OR. for fifteen years. Stories and novels published by Dog Copilot Press, available wherever ebooks are sold. He drinks coffee.
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