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( "What's this?  Trix?  Aunt!  Trix?  You?  You're after the  )
( prize!  What                                                )
( is it?"  He picked up the box and studied the back.  "A     )
( glow-in-the-dark                                            )
( squid!  Have you got it out of there yet?"  He tilted the   )
( box, angling the                                            )
( little colored balls of cereal so as to see the bottom, and )
( nearly spilling                                             )
( them onto the table top.  "Here it is!"  He hauled out a    )
( little cream-colored,                                       )
( glitter-sprinkled squid, three-inches long and made out of  )
( rubbery plastic.                                            )
(                 -- James P. Blaylock, "The Last Coin"       )
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