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    Star, Bright
    Star, Bright
    Star, Bright
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    Star, Bright

    By Mark Clifton

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    There is no past or future, the children said it all just is! They had every reason to know!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateJan 20, 2017
    ISBN9781537817088
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      Star, Bright - Mark Clifton

      STAR, BRIGHT

      Mark Clifton

      JOVIAN PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2017 by Mark Clifton

      Published by Jovian Press

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      ISBN: 9781537817088

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Star, Bright

      STAR, BRIGHT

      ~

      Friday—June 11th

      At three years of age, a little girl shouldn’t have enough functioning intelligence to cut out and paste together a Moebius Strip.

      Or, if she did it by accident, she surely shouldn’t have enough reasoning ability to pick up one of her crayons and carefully trace the continuous line to prove it has only one surface.

      And if by some strange coincidence she did, and it was still just an accident, how can I account for this generally active daughter of mine—and I do mean active—sitting for a solid half hour with her chin cupped in her hand, staring off into space, thinking with such concentration that it was almost painful to watch?

      I was in my reading chair, going over some work. Star was sitting on the floor, in the circle of my light, with her blunt-nosed scissors and her scraps of paper.

      Her long silence made me glance down at her as she was taping the two ends of the paper together. At that point I thought it was an accident that she had given a half twist to the paper strip before joining the circle. I smiled to myself as she picked it up in her chubby fingers.

      A little child forms the enigma of the ages, I mused.

      But instead of throwing the strip aside, or tearing it apart as any other child would do, she carefully turned it over and around—studying it from all sides.

      Then she picked up one of her crayons and began tracing the line. She did it as though she were substantiating a conclusion already reached!

      It was a bitter confirmation for me. I had been refusing to face it for a long time, but I could ignore it no longer.

      Star was a High I.Q.

      For half an hour I watched her while she sat on the floor, one knee bent under her, her chin in her hand, unmoving. Her

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