Changing Planes

Le Guin. “Seasons of the Ansarac” first appeared on www.infinitematrix.net.

People who live with animals value the charm of muteness.

People who live with animals value the charm of muteness.

“Only four percent of my genome,” she said. “There’s about half a percent of parrot, too, but it’s recessive. Thank God.”

The airport is where you can’t go anywhere else.

Error, fear, and suffering are the mothers of invention. The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind

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