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    The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats
    The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats
    The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats
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    The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats

    By Robert F. Young

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    Hubbard had seen queegy birds before, but this was the first time he had ever seen a lame one.

    Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJul 17, 2020
    ISBN9781515446132
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      The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats - Robert F. Young

      The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats

      by Robert F. Young

      ©2020 Positronic Publishing

      The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4613-2

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      Hubbard had seen queegy birds before, but this was the first time he had ever seen a lame one. However, if you discounted its crooked left leg, it didn’t differ particularly from the other birds on display. It had the same bright yellow topknot and the same necklace of blue polka dots; it had the same royal blue beads of eyes and the same pale-green breast; it had the same bizarre curvature of beak and the same outlandish facial expression. It was about six inches long, and it weighed in the neighborhood of one and a quarter ounces

      Hubbard realized that he had paused. The clerk, a high-breasted girl wearing one of the latest translucent dresses, was looking at him questioningly from the other side of the bird counter. He cleared his throat. What happened to its leg? he asked.

      The girl shrugged. "Got broke during shipment. We marked him down

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