Thanksgiving Fiction Special: The Thirty-Seven Marble Steps
It Could Happen Here
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The Man With the Bag and the Stick
Dogs went missing sometimes around that town. One day a little girl, not yet seven years old, got swept away by the river. That night she walked up to her own house wearing a burlap dress or hair brushed and braided her belly full. She didn't say a word about what happened, but everyone knew that the lady with the bag and the stick was watching out. People mostly want to let each other alone, and that woman wasn't hurting anyone. A boy came up in that town, and he became a man while he was at school in a nearby city. And when he came back as a man, he decided he wasn't going to be the sort to just
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