Things You Need
The rage had come from giving up my dreams.
Then I remembered how I’d left behind Emily’s copy of The Illustrated Man the previous week. I gathered up the Texas Instruments 8010 and took it to the van. A piece of paper fluttered from its wheel to the ground but I didn’t stop to inspect it. The masthead appeared terribly similar to the kind on my last rejection letter, from my college literary journal, The Oswegian.
That would be too much, seeing the same letter twenty years later.
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Emily had loved all the speculative genres as much as me. She’d grown up reading Bradbury, Poe, Matheson, L’Engle, Lewis, Tolkien, Dahl, and so many others. She’d escaped from her fractured childhood into those
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