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And she had never realized that a serious man at work could be quite so arousing.
It's pretty useless if you don't know the world or the characters already. All of the stories I disliked were stories that didn't fit the Firebird theme - that theme is sci-fi and fantasy. There's definitely a girl who feeds ghosts to dragons and a boy who accidentally gets a jump start on the afterlife by switching places with a dying homeless man. The quality of the stories here varies from great to very good. That story by itself and it's fairly long , brought the anthology down from a 3. Nov 26, William Herschel rated it really liked it Shelves: Though straight out of a Twilight Zone concept, Alan Dean Foster's take on the trickiness of perceptions humans pity aliens who pity humans is effectively revamped with young adult characters.
The happy valley unfolded far below them again, the last low shreds of mist blowing away past the mountains of its. A breathless voice came through the panels, words mixed with the piercing, sustained note.
The taste of her salt skin mingled with the power turning within, and everything loosened, splintered, multiplied. Consequently, the townspeople thought it best to lose no time in making friends with the strange army.