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The Thirteenth King
by Elizabeth Hopkinson
Monday, May 19, 2008

Rated "G" by the Author.

       
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     A Youth arrives in the middle of Nowhere in search of adventure. All he has to help him are twelve books...

"It's true !" he cried, in his ordinary voice this time. And all the people crowding beside him on the Temple roof shouted, "It's really true !"

That's the second-to-last line of the story. I ought to know because I wrote it myself. Now you know it too; that's the benefit of hindsight. Everything would be much easier to believe in if we had more of that. And having started at the end, I could now go on and tell you the whole story backwards. It's not unfeasible; it's been done before. But, aside from the fact that it would probably make you seasick, it would also take away the suspense and ruin the whole story. I suppose that's where hindsight falls down...

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