. . A hundred cases of arson in Midtown this month, willowy ash amid charred stone, good hard wood burning fast, faster that is, ashen and that is where this story begins. Flames in the eyes of a six-year-old. An ogre that does not look as one. . . 29 April 1996 [end]
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