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The Doorway, by Evelyn E. Smith
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Title: The Doorway
Author: Evelyn E. Smith
Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29138]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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A discerning critic once pointed out that Edgar Allen Poe possessed not so much a distinctive style as a distinctive manner. So startlingly original was his approach to the dark castles and haunted woodlands of his own somber creation that he transcended the literary by the sheer magic of his prose. Something of that same magic gleams in the darkly-tapestried little fantasy presented here, beneath Evelyn Smith's eerily enchanted wand.
the doorway
by ... Evelyn E. Smith
A man may wish he'd married his first love and not really mean it. But an insincere wish may turn ugly in dimensions unknown.
"It is my theory," Professor Falabella said, helping himself to a cookie, "that no one ever really makes a decision. What really happens is that whenever alternative courses of action are called for, the individuality splits up and continues on two or more divergent planes, very much like the parthenogenesis of a unicellular animal ..