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Many societies do not permit "graven images," some fearing that a painting or photograph could steal their soul. Hill writes a variant on this superstition in "Snapshot." "Loaded" is anti-gun propaganda. Tent pegs. All the characters are disagreeable in "Aloft"; before the story ends the reader may be willing to push them over the cloud's edge personally.