Emma Mazzucco

Leonard Gaya

Benjamin Chandler

Sean King

Sam Becker

Rietje Becker

Lana Johnson

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Once upon a time, there was this little girl

who was very little indeed. So little was she that no one seemed to notice her very existence. Even her mother hadn’t been aware of her pregnancy — the tiny little girl had been born when her parents were fast asleep.

Now this is a fairy tale, so she was born fully able to walk & talk. She marched her half-inch self right out of bed & into the garden. The light of the moon shone blue over the yard. There she saw a cricket, chirping a sad song. "Hello," said the tiny girl. "What's your name?"

“Why I’m Legther Vandross, little girl! Don’t you recognize me? I used to fill cricket amphitheaters in my day. Now I’m just chirping the blues.”

She looked at him with disappointment. She’d never seen a has been up close. “Will you play something for me?” she asked, mostly out pity. Monsieur Vandross looked up with a glint in his eye.

He strummed his most popular tune, but stopped midway. He hated it. It had been popular for so long, he just didn’t want to play it anymore. He stood up, and played something new. Something from his heart. And a new fan was born.

The Cricket's Comeback

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Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.

They looked nothing alike. Jerry looked at the picture again. He paused. He guffawed. Once again, he had been played.

All at once a blinding light coursed through the space. Jerry and the woman froze. And then a creature appeared, seemingly from the air itself.

Jerry and the woman looked at each other, confused. Another of those stupid creatures? they seemed to be asking each other. They were trapped in a loop.

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