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Archive for November, 2004

Among You

Monday, November 1st, 2004

By Phyllis Gotlieb

Rain is a shape-shifter, an expatriate orphan, one of hundreds living on Earth, struggling to survive fit in, to make a living with his abilities. He can be your companion, a long-lost lover, a child whom the years have taken irretrievably away. But even with the talent to become anyone or anything, one can still feel like an island lost in a sea of billions.

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The Age of Maturity (L’age Mûr)

Monday, November 1st, 2004

By Rebecca Maines

Auguste Rodin created masterpieces with his hands-works of timeless art that seemed to breathe, to pulse with the very life that their subjects themselves once possessed. Camille Claudel worked at the feet of the maître , watched him sculpt these likenesses of such realistic form, learned his secrets . . . and discovered what price must be paid for such mastery. This is a tale of a time long since gone by, a story about life and death, and of the rashness of youth.

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Flying

Monday, November 1st, 2004

By Martin Mundt

Sometimes a story comes along that carries the reader on such a wild ride it’s hard to get off before it comes to an end. It’s even more difficult when the author writes it in a way that his audience cannot help but “get into” the narrator’s mind. Of course, when the story is told from your viewpoint, it’s sometimes well-nigh impossible to figure out whether it’s only a dream.

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