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The Game This
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Articles 8 January 2007
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By Lisa Goldstein
Columns It starts again. The baby begins
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to cough and choke.
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Locked Doors
It is a little before midnight, and three old
Poetry
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by Stephanie Burgis
people, two women and a man, are
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o laboriously climbing the stairs in a
1 January 2007
ramshackle old office building.
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Lily, the youngest-looking of the three, You can never let anyone
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carries a box-shaped package. She looks suspect, his mother told him.
like a woman you might see in a shopping That was the first rule she
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taught him, and the last, before
mall or a church though a little
over-dressed and behind the times. The she left him here alone with It.
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other woman, Grace, is wearing a long Heroic Measures
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coat patched together out of sky-blue
velvet and emerald silk and ivory lace and by Matthew Johnson
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embroidered upholstery fabric. Her gray
hair is tied back in a bun, and a tabby cat, 18 December 2006
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the same color as her hair, rides across
her shoulders. Collier, the man, is using a Pale as he was, it was hard to
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stout staff to pull himself up the stairs. All believe he would never rise
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the bulbs have burned out; the only light, from this bed. Even in the
a soft golden illumination, comes from the darkest times, she had never