Caging Skies

by Christine Leunens

effective than anticipated for it fell back down involuntarily. “That’s almost a 100 percent. My, my.” She handed the ruffled-up pages to my mother before shutting

Distinguished professors of leading American universities had proven that the tendency to poverty, alcoholism and low-class lives was genetic. Possessors of these traits were therefore forbidden to multiply and the mandated surgery put into practice in these states helped to limit many such undesirable groups of people.

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hand?” she asked as she thrust the letters out for me to take. To my astonishment, they were indeed in my own handwriting. Not only had I been stupid enough to write down a return address, none other than Baumeistergasse

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