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No Pets Allowed, by M. A. Cummings
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Title: No Pets Allowed
Author: M. A. Cummings
Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29139]
Language: English
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M. A. Cummings (Monette to her friends) returns with another hauntingly persuasive story of a Tomorrow that may not be as gleaming as we hope. Her recent story, THE WEIRDIES, apparently delighted some and startled others--and this in Los Angeles! What's happening there?
no pets allowed
by M. A. CUMMINGS
He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. She was company and one could talk to her ...
I can't tell anyone about it. In the first place, they'd never believe me. And, if they did, I'd probably be punished for having her. Because we aren't allowed to have pets of any kind.
It wouldn't have happened, if they hadn't sent me way out there to work. But, you see, there are so many things I can't do.
I remember the day the Chief of Vocation took me before the council.
"I've tried him on a dozen things," he reported. People always talk about me as if I can't understand what they mean. But I'm really not that<