"In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her."
from Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente
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Spookland - Vorgeschichte
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*Es wäre angebracht, diese Geschichte mit „es war einmal...“ zu beginnen,
wie es in den alten Märchen üblich war. Andererseits könnte dies zynisch
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