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Short Story

The Physicist’s Mind

Daniel Harper peers into the murky depths.

“You saw him, wasn’t he beautiful?” she says, smoothing her beach towel in the Polynesian sun. “The babies here are adorable.”

He looks up from his paperback and pokes his glasses up the bridge of his nose. “Look at you,” he says. “Soon as you get a ring on your finger you’re thinking about procreation.

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