The Butterfly

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The Butterfly

FromMiette's Bedtime Story Podcast

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13 minutes

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Mar 29, 2010

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I've been wanting to read James Hanley to you for a couple of months now, ever since he was reintroduced to me a few months ago while I was yearning for a bathematic submergence in a foreign hotel.

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Mar 29, 2010

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Curl up and fall asleep to the world's greatest short stories, the known treasures and the once-forgotten, purred to you as only Miette can.

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Binoculars: A saw a sign the other day while out on a drive, a sign that said this: Frost Heaves. - And I almost had to stop and compose myself, because I was so deeply distressed by the fact that frost can't heave in private (and I'm not a histrionic sort of ... by Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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The Butterfly

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