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Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
City
Outskirts
Cutting
Oval
Darkness
River
Cities
Town
Everyone
Towns
Black
Bed
Around
Rivers
Everything
Ugly

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