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Sleeping Beauty
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He could see her breasts lift and fall gently with her breathing. She'd thrown off her blanket. He watched now. Feeling like an adolescent. Just as ridiculous, just as enthralled.
He imagined going to her, lying next to her on the bed, pulling her into his arms, waiting for her to stir awake. He imagined the feel of the fine, fragile fabric of the night rail against his hands---it would be warm, fragrant from her--- and the whisper of sound it would make as it slid over her body when he lifted i
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― Beauty and the Spy
― Beauty and the Spy
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…I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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― Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
― Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
