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Reading is as essential to my day as breakfast. My favourite author is Toni Morrison but I have recently been turned onto Philip K Dick.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Meaning of life

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The child lay down in her bed. She did not glance out of her window to take in a final pre-sleep view of the night sky. Indeed there was no point, since the few remaining stars of her mother's day had been entirely replaced by 'flying stars' - airplane lights taking the same night course they took every night. Nor did the child pick up any sleep-inducing novel from her night stand. In fact no novel could be found on her night stand or even in her room. She had never read, or been read, any fairy tales and she didn't see the point of them - they depicted neither the here, nor the now. When ...

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