Excerpt from Hyacinth From Limbo: And Other StoriesWhy, then, had they come? Was not her home fabulous and, to many, beautiful, or dare one suspect some appeal in the curious notoriety ofher name? Surely, many a romantic had smiled hearing that old pied piper, the ancient music box, sing him a lorelei beneath the pudgy hand of a blond cherub, escaped from an antique-mad mama's eye or a gilded cupid frame, cranking obstinately away and perched ...
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