We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.—Eric Hoffer

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Thaumatrope is a twitter fiction magazine for
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fiction
under 140 characters—edited by @nelilly.

stories

August 22nd, 2009

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By the time the harp had sung six songs in five languages at once, I was regretting picking its bones at random from the graverobber’s cart.

Orpheus guides my fingers across these steel strings. My songs are for you, my lost Eurydice. Sometimes, I can’t help but look back...

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