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“Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?”
“What do you know of death? I have asked him. I've lived it, he says.”
“They were taller than the tallest men in the village”
“a swirl of smoke trapped in a glass bottle, an odd unlabelled thing unknowingly put up for sale.”
“You get one wish, the smoke said. And so Yoth wished.”
“I say nothing, so she can assume I'm feeling whatever emotion she wants me to feel.”
“How simple our wants are as children, how easily satisfied.”
“The circle that they drew was laid with fresh petals from the cherry tree on a bed of salt...”
“Then he saw it. The feet of every man in the congregation were turned backwards at the ankles.”
“Peoples desires were easy to read, clear as bottled glass and just as sturdy.”
“A world of hot wind and bursting stars”
“The blessed lives of model-types, banking on the envy of the unwashed populace to earn their keep.”