Fiction | March 01, 2007

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The wind lifted.  The sky above Sandro’s head was filled with a flurry of little yellow leaves.  Frantically airborne, they resisted for one last instant the inevitability of the fall.  Sandro sat on a wooden bench, his elbows resting on the picnic table behind him, and gazed up at the sudden pandemonium.

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