“All my washing gone for nothing if you don’t. “If it was a nice, sunny day I wouldn’t ask,” she said, reasonably. “Run them about.” His voice was hollow, deep, and terribly wounded. “Don’t cry you’ll wet them down again,” she said. “To this, to this, to this.” He almost wept angry and acid tears. “So it’s come to this,” he muttered, bitterly. He turned it in his fingers with distaste. She gave him a slender rope on which were tied four dozen fresh-washed clothes. “Again, I refuse.” His vast tarpaulin wings hummed nervously behind his indignant back. “I’ll not be pierced by lightning just to air your clothes.” “I’ve worked all morning,” she said, holding to her slender back, “and you won’t help? It’s drumming for a rain.” “It will take only a minute,” said Uncle Einar’s sweet wife. It concerns a man who was born with large green wings, who somehow lost his way in life, and how (with the help of his children) was reborn again.

This story is short, and nice, and is presented here in full text for easy reading. This is a great short story from Ray Bradbury from his collection of short stories titled 'R is for Rocket'. What a day! The anti-China trolls are out in rare form.The battle still rages, but the major threat is now neutralized. Anything Is Much Better When There Are Animals Around.In praise of the often forgotten creamsicle.Welcome to the grand future that you are unprepared for.Exploring Fairy Tale Masterpieces By Ivan Bilibin.Sorry about the Geo-political stuff, but we are seriously in the shit right now.Big changes and it is beyond the United States ability to stop.But the mainstream “news” is all in a fury about the Pentagon leaker The Photorealist Paintings By Yasutomo Oka.Convergence of AI, Geo-political changes, the end of the United States, and when idiots have access to great powerful machines.The Chinese are getting ready for the American promises of world war 3.Win-Win vs Lose-Lose: The Time Has Come for the World to Choose.The changes are irreversible, and unstoppable….

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