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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Maybe a logic slip
Date: 18 Jun 2025 15:49:02 GMT
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  The next story, "The Tree of Life" by Jennifer Rohn, is worth
  checking out too. Like "Down and Out," it is pretty sad, and
  the endings have a lot in common. So, I do not want to give
  away too much, but in "The Tree of Life" I think I spotted a
  kind of "logic slip", where something she tries really should
  not work - tragically enough! Still, it would not be a stretch
  to say the main character actually believes it might work,
  so the logic slip is not really baked into the story itself.