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    The Touch: A Short Story
    The Touch: A Short Story
    The Touch: A Short Story
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    The Touch: A Short Story

    By Geoffrey Taylor

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    An Eskimo boy awakes in fear to the feeling of a strange touch on his face. Without betraying wakefulness, he tries to work out the identity of the owner of the touch. Then he will know how much danger he is in.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateAug 11, 2012
    ISBN9781291026863
    The Touch: A Short Story

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      The Touch - Geoffrey Taylor

      The Touch: A Short Story

      The Touch

      A Short Story

      by Geoff Taylor

      Copyright © 1977 Geoff Taylor

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-291-02686-3

      Picture credit:

      The photo Free snowflakes falling at Night, which is incorporated into the cover image for this story, is used under a Creative Commons license. Thanks to the photo's owner, D Sharon Pruitt at PinkSherbet.com.

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      I awoke to the touch of someone’s fingers, cool on my face. My eyelids twitched but I did not allow them to open. My body did not betray me and I lay as if still asleep. Fingertips explored my lips and cheeks, nose and forehead so

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