A row of autumn leaves growing fainter from left to right on a brown background.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes  ·  1962

Ray Bradbury

For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so

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Autumn becomes a lasting inner season: the passage cycles through fall months while joy and winter celebration fail to arrive. The unfinished ending leaves the final image open.

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