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but in Los Angeles we had both. Pale as he was, it was hard to
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Pammy checked her watch. "Now," she from this bed. Even in the
said.
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really feared for him; he had
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always been strong, so strong.
learning to whistle. I watched a leaf fall
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circle in the air, stirred by the wind's hand.
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Pammy let go of the paper and it skimmed by Elizabeth Bear
twenty feet along the grass before landing
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on the chain-link cyclone fence that divided 11 December 2006
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the back of our property from the
Nilufer raised her eyes to his.
neighbor's.
It was not what women did to
"I better get it," Pammy said, "before it flies men, but she was a princess,
and he was only a bandit. "I
into Mrs. Garcia's yard." Daddy had
warned us just that morning to stay away want to be a Witch," she said.
from Mrs. Garcia, ". . .that witch next door. "A Witch and not a Queen. I
Stay away from her and her devil magic," wish to be not loved, but
wise. Tell your bandit lord, if
he'd said, but if it hadn't been magic, he
would have found another reason to keep he can give me that, I might
accept his gift."
us to our yard.
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Pammy found his superstitions funny. I
couldn't help looking past the fence to Mrs. to 9/1/00
Garcia's back door, wondering why she
had been nice to us all summer, awfully nice
for someone who wasn't even a blood
relative. I didn't want to trust her. Maybe
Daddy was right. Maybe Mrs. Garcia was