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Comes a Cool Rain.(short story)(Short Story)

THE LAUGHING, GIGGLING BOY is throwing a doll lazily into the air and letting it drop onto the grey wool picnic blanket. A small, sardonic smile is stitched across the doll's face in black thread. Swoosh. The doll goes up, reaching its apex then tumbling lazily, end over end, and landing with a dull thwump.

Swoosh.

Thwump.

Swoosh.

Thwump.

The man looks up and through a mouthful of potato salad says, "Still playing with dolls, eh?" There is a twinkle in the man's eye, mirth in his voice.

"Hush, now," says the woman.

The boy smiles and sticks his tongue out at the father.

Then, black clouds and a fierce wind whipping tree branches. The scent ...

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