The Josephs and Other Stories

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Polly Tuckett. The Josephs and Other Stories

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The Terrible Mountains

The Josephs

The Cat With No Name

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The Terrible Mountains

The Josephs

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‘This is too much for you, isn’t it? We don’t have to do any more skiing if you don’t want to. You can get the lift down from here.’

The next day they went skating because she hated skiing so much. The lake was covered with a fine mantle of snow and scarred with the tracks of ice skates and paw prints. Shelf ice massed at the edges and the long spikes of candle ice pitted the surface nearer the middle, which was bluish white from impurities in the water. The ice was at least a foot thick but it creaked and groaned alarmingly as it split into rifts, great jagged continents forming beneath Edith’s feet.

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