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Fanfare, whole no. 10, December 1943

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catastrophic rip & a cold breeze skittered up her dorsal vertebrae. 
   "Damn!" said Alicia. "That was Ray Cummings!"
   No sooner were the words out of her mouth when Alicia saw him speeding thru the air toward her, astride the neck of a wild goose. Across the floor at her feet scurried a tiger & a couple of gorillas. A stream of large red ants was climbing her left shin.*
   The equine person circled round her head honking his goose. He seemed to be shrinking. He was about the size of a bumblebee. He sounded more like a Jersey mosquito. He pulled something out of his pocket - a ray! So he was Ray Cummings!
   She had no time to argue. He flashed it at her & she ducked. It was mauve - the color of the reducing pill. Something else ripped & as she grabbed frantically at her scapula the ray clipped the lobe of her ear. The walls receded & the floor skidded out from under her. She sat down hard, bumping gently up & down as the grain of the wood moved radially ourward. The bumping slowed & stopped. She opened her eyes. She was in smallness! 
   She was sitting on a pile of grey spheres that looked like boulders & felt like sofa cushions. All around her rose a tangled jungle of many-branched carbon-chains, hung with brilliant red, yellow, & violet halogens. One bright blue blossom she knew must be Element 75. On the distance, a sea of egg-shaped waves was bouncing off a white cliff.
   "Huh!" said Alicia. "Ripley's to blame for this!" at her out of the grey sky. One of them hit her amidships & she found herself balanced helplessly on top of one of the oval waves. She began to fall. Then a second dart knocked the wave out from under her & the world turned upside down. She scrambled to her feet. A spinning crystal globe hit her & she sat down abruptly. She didged a second & ducked squarely into a third,
   "Where am I?" wailed Alicia.
   "In the next state," replied a shrill voice. 
   She looked around. A little man with a big head & very bright eyes was sitting cross-legged on one of the crystal spheres.
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* see "The Jungle Rebellion".

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8 catastrophic rip & a cold breeze skittered up her dorsal vertebrae. "Damn!" said Alicia. "That was Ray Cummings!" No sooner were the words out of her mouth when Alicia saw him speeding thru the air toward her, astride the neck of a wild goose. Across the floor at her feet scurried a tiger & a couple of gorillas. A stream of large red ants was climbing her left shin.* The equine person circled round her head honking his goose. He seemed to be shrinking. He was about the size of a bumblebee. He sounded more like a Jersey mosquito. He pulled something out of his pocket - a ray! So he was Ray Cummings! She had no time to argue. He flashed it at her & she ducked. It was mauve - the color of the reducing pill. Something else ripped & as she grabbed frantically at her scapula the ray clipped the lobe of her ear. The walls receded & the floor skidded out from under her. She sat down hard, bumping gently up & down as the grain of the wood moved radially ourward. The bumping slowed & stopped. She opened her eyes. She was in smallness! She was sitting on a pile of grey spheres that looked like boulders & felt like sofa cushions. All around her rose a tangled jungle of many-branched carbon-chains, hung with brilliant red, yellow, & violet halogens. One bright blue blossom she knew must be Element 75. On the distance, a sea of egg-shaped waves was bouncing off a white cliff. "Huh!" said Alicia. "Ripley's to blame for this!" at her out of the grey sky. One of them hit her amidships & she found herself balanced helplessly on top of one of the oval waves. She began to fall. Then a second dart knocked the wave out from under her & the world turned upside down. She scrambled to her feet. A spinning crystal globe hit her & she sat down abruptly. She didged a second & ducked squarely into a third, "Where am I?" wailed Alicia. "In the next state," replied a shrill voice. She looked around. A little man with a big head & very bright eyes was sitting cross-legged on one of the crystal spheres. ______________________________________ * see "The Jungle Rebellion".