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Book of short stories I read as a kid; one story about a starving girl, one about a boy who stays forever young
As Sean Duggan has said, the second story is clearly Infinity Jinx by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The first one is almost certainly Dear, dear kitty by Marion Dane Bauer, which is a ghost story in which ...
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Book of short stories I read as a kid; one story about a starving girl, one about a boy who stays forever young
The latter story is “Infinity Jinx” by Margaret Peterson Haddix as per this SF&F SE answer. They quote from a now defunct blog:
What if children stayed as just that, children? After the terrible ...
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Are romantic relationships where one character has fair skin and the other dark a motif of Ismat Chughtai's stories?
The motif of a dark lover and a fair beloved is not unique to Chughtai, but is a culturally specific pattern very common in Indian love stories. This pattern can be traced back to medieval poets such ...
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