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I secretly suspect this of all dogs.

"A shadow moved by his foot. The largest moondog had come quite close, inhaling dreamily. “Hello,” he said to it. Some of these dogs could talk a little. This one opened its eyes wide but said nothing."

"A vast impersonal tonnage fell upon him and the stars raveled away from his brain."

10. With Delicate Mad Hands, 4 stars. Pig-nosed woman goes wonky in space, isn't as crazy as she seems.
11. A Momentary Taste of Being, 4 stars. Sister returns from planet scouting with alien fungoid & tales of paradise. Doctor smells a rat.
12. We Who Stole the Dream, 5 stars. Tiny weak race escapes human enslavement by stealing ship.
13. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, 3 stars. Painful moments relived for eternity.

06. And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways, 3 stars. Misfit scientists gathers taboo data.
07. The Women Men Don't See, 3 stars. Mother and daughter find new travel companions.
08. Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!, 4 stars. Sister's late night journey west is cut short.
09. Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, 5 stars. Male space crew discovers they're waaay off course, things get nasty.

Word/Wiki: "He made out a dialed face pulsing with lissajous figures..."

A plane curve traced by a point which executes two perpendicular independent harmonic motions, the frequencies of which are in a simple ratio.

01. The Last Flight of Dr. Ain, 4 stars. Doctor weaponizes a nasty disease.
02. The Screwfly Solution, 5 stars. Men start mass murdering women.
03. And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, 4 stars. Humans become enamored of aliens.
04. The Girl Who Was Plugged In, 4 stars. Ugly girl animates a pretty body to sell things.
05. The Man Who Walked Home, 3 stars. Man appears annually in flashes of time.

"A dish of lime-vanilla ice."

01. A Necessary Being, 3 stars. Blue hued people are leaders/lucky, tribes kidnap and cripple them if they can't produce their own.
02. Childfinder, 4 stars. Woman leaves group of psi-talented people to protect psi-gifted children.

08. Amnesty, 5 stars. Human translator explains some of the realities of life (and employment) to job candidates after a very successful alien invasion.
09. The Book of Martha, 4 stars. God commands Martha to make any one change to the human race, as long as she believes it will change us for the better.

Wiki: "...inspired by the things that happened to Doctor Wen Ho Lee of Los Alamos..."

04. Speech Sounds, 4 stars. Human race loses the ability to speak/read, most people become grunting savages.
05. Crossover, 3 stars. Dead end job(s) drives lady to drink.
06. Positive Obsession, 5 stars. Essay about her passion to write. "Honey … Negroes can’t be writers" broke my goddamn heart.
07. Furor Scribendi, 4 stars. Short essay about putting the work in to succeed as a writer.

01. Bloodchild, 5 stars. Human family's relationship with their alien "guardian". Bad decision on my part to read this during lunch.
02. The Evening and the Morning and the Night, 4 stars. Girl/young couple managing their dangerous genetic disease.
03. Near of Kin, 4 stars. Woman questions uncle about her dead-beat mother after mother's funeral.

Wiki: "Finally, I used Lesch-Nyhan disease, which causes both mental impairment and self-mutilation."

Wiki: "Boone drove across the bridge and parked under the porte-cochère."

01. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 3 stars. Every man falls in love with our racist ingénue.
02. House of Flowers, 3 stars. Lovely (but ignorant) girl goes from city prostitute to country wife.
03. A Diamond Guitar, 4 stars. Old lifer is seduced into escape attempt by new inmate's tall tales.
04. A Christmas Memory, 5 stars. Child's holiday preparation with a very old relative.

Chickens: "She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen; but, due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched."

Wiki: "The publican, very old, served him with a local beer."

Publican > Pharisee and the Publican

Wiki: "...with Brown Willy safely descended and lifting his mighty head in lonely splendor behind her..."

Brown Willy > Sugarloaf > Sugarloaf (mountain)

03. The Return of the King, 5 stars - 25 Sep 2016.

02. The Two Towers, 4 stars - 13 Sep 2016.

10. Mortals, 4 stars. [2016]
11. Flyboys, 4 stars. [2016]
12. Sanity, 4 stars. [2016]
13. The Other Miller, 3 stars. [2016]
14. Two Boys and a Girl, 5 stars. [2016]
15. The Chain, 5 stars. [2016]
16. Smorgasbord, 5 stars. [2016]
17. Lady's Dream, 3 stars. [2016]
18. Powder, 3 stars. [2016]
19. The Night in Question, 3 stars. [2016]
20. Firelight, 4 stars. [2016]
21. Bullet in the Brain, 5 stars. [2016]

11. Smorgasbord, 5 stars. Schoolmate invites rejects to dinner to piss off stepmom.
12. Lady’s Dream, 3 stars. Daydreaming about life before ill-suited marriage.
13. The Night in Question, 3 stars. Overprotective sister impatiently listens to sermon.
14. Firelight, 4 stars. Remembering being too poor to rent an apartment.
15. Bullet in the Brain, 5 stars. Bitter man runs his mouth during bank robbery.

06. Sanity, 4 stars. Stepmother overshares intimate details of previous marriage.
07. The Other Miller, 3 stars. Boy joins army to make his mother suffer.
08. Two Boys and a Girl, 5 stars. Romancing absent friend's girl, petty revenge.
09. Migraine, 5 stars. Manipulative woman has a migraine after lover threatens to move out.
10. The Chain, 5 stars. Returning a family favor of vengeance ends in tragedy.

01. Mortals, 4 stars. Obituary writer doesn't fact check.
02. Casualty, 4 stars. Nervous soldier's "friend" has a smart mouth.
03. Powder, 3 stars. Irresponsible father rushing home for Christmas Eve dinner.
04. The Life of the Body, 4 stars. Deluded (possibly dangerous) asshole thinks he's clever and irresistible.
05. Flyboys, 4 stars. Kids see an old (abandoned) friend about DIY plane parts.

Wiki: "That’s an Iron Maiden. Don’t you know what a seraglio is?"

03. The Third Lie, 5 stars. Klaus (the real one) and Lucas are reunited. Klaus' story is explained, while Lucas' fantasy world falls apart. Klaus white knuckles his own lies to protect Lucas/Mother/Himself? What a miserable mindfuck for all involved.

02. The Proof, 4 stars. Lucas grows up without Claus, takes in a fallen woman and her crippled incest baby. Has lovers of both genders, obsesses over a woman that reminds him of his mother. Raises (and dearly loves) the boy Mathias, more so after the mother "leaves for the city" one day.

01. The Notebook, 4 stars. Nearing the end of WWII, young twin brothers are dumped with the grandmother they've never met. Very weird, sexual in a detached way.

Previously read:
01. Robbie [2013]
02. Runaround [2013]
03. Reason [2013]
04. Liar! [2013]
05. Little Lost Robot [2013]
06. Evidence [2013]
07. The Evitable Conflict [2013]
08. Lenny, 4 stars. [2016]
09. Galley Slave, 4 stars. [2016]

11. Petra Kuppers - Playa Song, 2 stars. Hipster riots, human dry lake.
12. A.C. Buchanan - Puppetry, 4 stars. Eco-terrorism, hive warfare.
13. A.F. Sanchez - Lyric, 4 stars. Damaged non-standard engineered animal companion.
14. Rachael K. Jones - Courting the Silent Sun, 3 stars. Pilot deserts mission, and husband.
15. David Jón Fuller - In Open Air, 3 stars. Tricksy old lady wants to see a sunset.