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Accident, he wondered, or a way of hiding? Trapped or planned? He had no way of knowing and further speculation was ridiculous, based as it necessarily must be upon earlier assumptions that were entirely without support.
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“The Thing in the Stone” (pp. 211-212); originally published in Worlds of If, March 1970

 

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