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"To Jump is to Fall" by Stephen Graham Jones

LeVar Burton Reads

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Is to Fall. By Stephen Graham Jones

The ceiling for a jump without oxygen is 14 thousand feet. Reading minds isn't like watching words appear in glowing letters on a board either. I don't think mind to mind really needs language even. It's more like rubbing a dry sponge against a wet one. The age i got during orientation was a coked up hampster on a wheel, going faster and faster until the blood from its paws is a spray striping the wood chip floor,. Then back wall, then clear ceiling, then front wall of its habitat that hampster is in my head. Now it doesn't make me smarter, i wish. But the latent telepathy we're all born with and never have access

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